European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

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