Follow-up Study of Aortic-Valve Replacement Surgery in Patients With Takayasu's Disease Complicated by Aortic Regurgitation.

Aortic regurgitation and aortic valve operation in Takayasu arteritis: A meta-analysis

“…[14] By preoperative imaging, the left ventricular dimension was detected in 23 patients (14.5%). [11,13,14,17,24,27,[31][32][33][34]36,39,40,42] The end diastolic diameter of the left ventricle was normal in four patients (17.4%), [13,42] and left ventricular dilation was found in 19 patients (82.6%) [11,14,17,24,27,[31][32][33][34]36,39,40,42] (c 2 =19.6, p<0.001). The quantitative value of the end diastolic diameter of the left ventricle was 57.3±9.0 mm (range 44-72 mm; median 60 mm) (n=15).…”

“…One article (2.4%) was an original article, [10] two (4.9%) were case series, [26,42] The presenting symptoms were available for 32 patients with 63 manifestations. The major manifestations were circulatory (41.3%), followed by constitutional (25.4%), pains (17.5%), neurological (9.5%) and local symptoms (4.8%).…”

“…[12,14,15,20,23,24,28,[30][31][32]47] The degree of AR was not reported in 118 patients (74.2%). [10,16,18,22,26,35,38,45,50] In the remaining 41 patients (25.8%), one (2.4%) was mild, [29] nine (22.0%) were moderate, [11,12,23,34,37,41,42,49] one (2.4%) was moderate-to-severe [37] and 30 (73.2%) were severe [13][14][15]17,[19][20][21]24,25,27,28,[30][31][32][33]36,39,40,[42][43][44]…”

“…[10,16,18,22,26,35,38,45,50] In the remaining 41 patients (25.8%), one (2.4%) was mild, [29] nine (22.0%) were moderate, [11,12,23,34,37,41,42,49] one (2.4%) was moderate-to-severe [37] and 30 (73.2%) were severe [13][14][15]17,[19][20][21]24,25,27,28,[30][31][32][33]36,39,40,[42][43][44][46][47][48] (c 2 =17.9, p<0.001). Seven patients (4.4%) were associated with mitral regurgitation [23,26,42,47] and one patient (0.6%) was associated with pulmonary valve regurgitation. [14] By preoperative imaging, the left ventricular dimension was detected in 23 patients (14.5%).…”

“…[10][11][12]14,15,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][38][39][40]42,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50] The aortic valve operations that were performed in these patients were: aortic valve repair in three (2%) [12,30,32] (in one of them, aortic valve repair was performed after a three-week steroid treatment), [32] aortic valve replacement in 98 (65.3%), [10,11,14,17,18,20,[22][23][24][25]...…”