Research relevance: among Kyrgyz patients with Takayasu arteritis (AT), young women were predominated. The etiology is unknown. Research objectives: observation of the clinical manifestations in Takayasu’s arteritis in patients with the aim of compiling a diagnosis in treatment of disease. Research methods: most of patients had anatomical type V Takayasu arteritis (61.3%), vascular stage (89.3%) and severe stenosis (54.7%), lesions of the brachiocephalic trunk (68%), common sleepyheads (57.3%) and renal (52%) arteries. Severe exacerbation of the disease was observed in 82.7% of patients. The presence of ≥2 complications worsened the prognosis of AT. Research results: the clinical manifestations of AT were characterized mainly by cardiovascular pathology (77.3%) and kidney damage (57.3%). Conclusions: more than one third of patients (37.3%) had late diagnosis of AT.
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