• Theresa Khalife, Jean-Marc Alsac, Marc Lambert, Emmanuel Messas, Jean-Paul Duong Van Huyen, Patrick Bruneval, Patrick Farahmand, Pierre Julia, and Jean-Noël Fabiani.
• Service de Chirurgie Cardio-Vasculaire, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou-APHP, Université René-Descartes, Paris, France.
• Ann Vasc Surg. 2011 May 1; 25 (4): 556.e1-5.

BackgroundTo report the rare diagnosis and the surgical treatment of a young patient presenting a symptomatic dissection of the abdominal aorta revealing a Takayasu's arteritis (TA).Methods And ResultsA 24-year-old woman developed a painful chronic dissection of the infrarenal aorta associated with a claudication of both lower extremities. As the patient was still symptomatic despite an optimal medical treatment, a surgical revascularization was proposed. An aortobifemoral bypass was performed allowing the removal of infrarenal aorta and the histologic diagnosis of TA.ConclusionIsolated abdominal aortic dissection is an unusual event in TA, and this is the first surgically treated case. Only few reports of aortic dissection in TA have been published so far which are commented in this article.Copyright © 2011 Annals of Vascular Surgery Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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