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Case Reports
Subclavian steal syndrome secondary to Takayasu arteritis in a young female Caucasian patient.
- Georgios Tsivgoulis, Tsivgoulis Georgios, Ioannis Heliopoulos, Konstantinos Vadikolias, Theodosios Birbilis, and Charitomeni Piperidou.
- Department of Neurology, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece. tsivgoulisgiorg@yahoo.gr
- J. Neurol. Sci. 2010 Sep 15;296(1-2):110-1.
AbstractSubclavian steal syndrome (SSS) is most frequently described in Caucasians aged over 50 years because of increased incidence of atherosclerosis in this population. Non-atherosclerotic etiologies of SSS are rare in Caucasians. We present a case of Subclavian Steal Syndrome secondary to Takayasu Arteritis (TA) in a 26 year-old female Caucasian patient. The present case underscores that despite the very low incidence of TA in Caucasians (0.8/1,000,000), this large-vessel vasculitis of unknown etiology should always be considered in the differential diagnosis of subclavian steal syndrome in Caucasian women aged less than 40 years.2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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