[Coronary involvement in Takayasu's arteritis]

Rev Esp Cardiol. 1996 Nov;49(11):852-4.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Takayasu's arteritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that primarily affects young women. Cardiac involvement is infrequent and it includes aortic regurgitation, pericarditis, angor pectoris or myocardial infarction due to coronary narrowing and cardiac heart failure due to coronary involvement and/or high blood pressure. A patient with Takayasu's aortitis and angina pectoris due to severe narrowing of the left coronary arterial ostia is described.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Angina Pectoris / etiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Takayasu Arteritis / complications*