Takayasu disease with prominent pulmonary artery involvement: Confusion with pulmonary disease leading to delayed diagnosis

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 507-510

  Karadag, Bilgehan ^a   Kilic, Hasan ^a   Duman, Dursun ^a   Ongen, Zeki ^a   Vural, Vural Ali ^a   Yazici, Hasan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Pulmonary artery involvement; Takayasu arteritis

Indexed keywords

BOSENTAN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; SILDENAFIL; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY BRUIT; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CLAUDICATION; COUGHING; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DOSE RESPONSE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SARCOIDOSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 53549095727     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-008-0081-9     Document Type: Article

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