The limited role of MRI in long-term follow-up of patients with Takayasu's arteritis

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 132-136

  Eshet, Yael ^a   Pauzner, Rachel ^a   Goitein, Orly ^a   Langevitz, Pnina ^a   Eshed, Iris ^a   Hoffmann, Chen ^a   Konen, Eli ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Follow up; MRA; MRI; Takayasu's arteritis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ASCENDING AORTA; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CELIAC ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; DESCENDING AORTA; DILATATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY ARTERY; RENAL ARTERY; REVIEW; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; ISRAEL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS;

EID: 84861305923     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: 18730183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2011.09.002     Document Type: Review

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