EDITORIAL   

International Angiology 1998 March;17(1):1-9

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language: English

Abdominal Takayasu’s aortitis, the middle aortic syndrome and atherosclerosis. A critical review

Lande A.

From the Department of Radiology, Mount Sinai Medical School and Hospital, New York, NY, USA

To ­review the cur­rent stat­us of clin­i­cal, path­o­log­i­cal and arte­ri­o­graph­ic ­aspects of abdom­i­nal Takayasu’s aor­titis (TA). Personal expe­ri­ence with 86 ­patients with TA and ­review of the lit­er­a­ture is the basis of this ­report. The diag­nos­tic sig­nif­i­cance of pri­mary ver­sus sec­on­dary ath­ero­scler­o­sis is ­described in this com­mu­ni­ca­tion and the arte­ri­o­graph­ic dif­fe­ren­tial diag­nos­tic guide­lines are pro­vid­ed to sep­ar­ate abdom­i­nal TA from abdom­i­nal ath­ero­scler­o­sis.