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Research Article | Volume 5 Issue :4 (, 2015) | Pages 11 - 20
Takayasu Arteritis with Recurrent Acute Limb Ischemia
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Nov. 12, 2015
Abstract
Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a rare, systemic; large- vessel vasculitis that usually involves women of child-bearing age, causing severe vascular extremity ischemia that may necessitate revascularization. We report a case of 29-year- old female, who presented with sudden right leg pain, accompanied by paresthesia, poikilothermia, pallor, and pulselessness of the lower extremities. There was a past history of ischemic stroke at the age of 25 years and one-year history of bilateral leg claudication. Computed tomographic angiography revealed thrombus in the infrarenal abdominal aorta with segmental occlusion of the right mid- to distal external iliac artery, complete occlusion of the right common femoral artery with distal collateral blood flow from the right inferior
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