Pulmonary Arteries Involvement in Takayasu's Arteritis: Two Cases and Literature Review

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 461-470

  Toledano, Kohava ^a,c   Guralnik, Ludmila ^b,c   Lorber, Avraham ^c,d   Ofer, Amos ^b,c   Yigla, Mordechai ^c,e   Rozin, Alexander ^a   Markovits, Doron ^a   Braun Moscovici, Yolanda ^a,c   Balbir Gurman, Alexandra ^a,c  

^a B Shine Rheumatology Unit   (Israel)

^b Technion Institute of Technology ^*  (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d NONE   (Israel)

^e Division of Pulmonary Medicine   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pulmonary arterial hypertension; Pulmonary arteritis; Takayasu's arteritis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; BOSENTAN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; DRUG; FOLIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; SILDENAFIL; THIAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERASPIRON; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTIDYNIA; CHILD; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONVULSION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOPTYSIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JUGULAR VEIN; LEG EDEMA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG LESION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALAISE; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VASCULITIS; PULSE RATE; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS;

EID: 82955195888     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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