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Case Reports
Lessons of the month 2: Retinal vasculitis: a first presentation of Takayasu's arteritis.
- Hagar Ibrahim, Shane D'souza, Eleftherios Agorogiannis, Alia Ali, Nada Bashar, Ian Pearce, and Savita Madhusudhan.
- Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK hagar.ibrahim2@liverpoolft.nhs.uk.
- Clin Med (Lond). 2021 Nov 1; 21 (6): e673e676e673-e676.
AbstractTakayasu's arteritis is a chronic, systemic, large-vessel vasculitis affecting the aorta and its primary branches. However, coronary, renal and pulmonary arteries and small vessel involvement has been documented. We describe a rare case of Takayasu's arteritis with extensive supra-aortic arch disease, manifesting with bilateral occlusive retinal vasculitis as a first presentation. This is elicited by fundus findings of vascular sheathing and fundus fluoresceine angiography evidence of retinal vessel occlusion and peripheral capillary non-perfusion.© Royal College of Physicians 2021. All rights reserved.
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