Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC)
Nineteen patients (11female and 8 male) with a mean age of 22.7years (range 10 to 35yrs) with Takayasu’s arteritis were studied between July 1985to June 1993.these patients had both non vascular symptoms (myalgia/arthralgia in 47%and weight loss in 31%) and symptoms of vascular insufficiency such as arm claudication or numbness (37%) and hypertension due to renal artery involvement (73%).Vascular bruits were found in 73% and diminished or absent pulses was detected in 52% of patients. All patients had arterial involvement at multiples sites documented by aortography with various combinations ofstenosis, irregularity of arterial lumen and anurysm form…