Takayasu arteritis in children and adolescents
Open Access
- 18 June 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Rheumatology
- Vol. 49 (10), 1806-1814
- https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keq167
Abstract
Takayasu arteritis is a devastating vasculitis of the aorta and its major branches. The clinical manifestations in paediatric patients are less specific than in adults: in children the disease presents with fever, arthralgias and hypertension. Intramural inflammation results in narrowing of the blood vessel lumen and therefore hypoperfusion of the parenchyma. Conventional angiography is the gold standard diagnostic procedure. Corticosteroids, cyclophosphamide, MTX and biological therapies such as TNF-α blocking agents are treatment options.Keywords
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