• Vijayan Neeraja, Vihari Nakka, Meena Mahadev, Midha Naresh, Yadav Taruna, and Sakthivadivel Varatharajan.
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur, Department of General Medicine.
• Afr Health Sci. 2023 Mar 1; 23 (1): 781784781-784.

AbstractTakayasu arteritis, also known as "pulseless disease" usually affects major vessels like aorta and its branches, pulmonary arteries, and renal arteries. Hypertension is the common presentation. Chronic kidney disease involvement is less common. Only a few chronic kidney disease cases are reported so far in Takayasu arteritis. We discuss a case of a young female who presented with accelerated hypertension with chronic kidney disease with preserved peripheral pulses. The diagnosis was confirmed by Computed tomography aortic angiogram, which showed diffuse circumferential thickening, multifocal ectasia, and aneurysmal dilatation with few saccular outpouchings of the aortic arch, descending thoracic and abdominal aorta (Type V). The patient was treated with steroids, antihypertensives, antiplatelet, and hemodialysis.© 2023 Neeraja V et al.

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