Takayasu’s Arteritis

Angiographic features of 26 children with Takayasu's arteritis

“…Definition TA is a chronic, idiopathic inflammatory disease affecting primarily the aorta, its proximal branches and the pulmonary arteries [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. This disease is known by many eponyms including pulseless disease, aortic arch syndrome, occlusive thromboarteritis, non-specific arteritis, idiopathic aortitis, reversed coarctation, aortitis syndrome, pan arteritis and primary arteritis of the aorta and its branches [1,2,5,8,9,10].…”

“…This disease is known by many eponyms including pulseless disease, aortic arch syndrome, occlusive thromboarteritis, non-specific arteritis, idiopathic aortitis, reversed coarctation, aortitis syndrome, pan arteritis and primary arteritis of the aorta and its branches [1,2,5,8,9,10].…”

“…Reports on TA have a wide geographic origin including Japan, India, Africa, the USA, Thailand, Singapore, Israel and western Europe [1,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,14,15] and there are significant differences in clinical and pathological presentations from the various areas. Different reports from the same area, however, show good correlation of findings [1,2,5,15].…”

Hereditary factors of Takayasu arteritis

“…The difference in affected lesions in Asian countries should be discussed more in future studies. Deutch et al have already pointed out not only the predominance of females in the Far East as compared to Africa and northern European countries, but also the predominance of vascular stenosis or occlusion Japan [10]. In contrast, aneurysms become prominent in India, Thailand, and Africa.…”

“…The majority of these cases come from oriental countries such as Japan [3,4] Korea [5,6], China [7], Singapore, India [8], Thailand [9], Israel [10] or from the colored population in South Africa [11,12] or from South American people [13], while very few are from the white population of Europe, the United States, and South Africa [14][15][16].…”