BENALLAL Souad
Department of vascular surgery, University Djilali Liabes. Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria
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Research Article
Hypertension and Takayasu Disease
Author(s): BENALLAL Souad* and BOUAYED Mohamed Nadjib
Introduction: Takayasu’s disease (TD) is a primary, inflammatory, rare, segmental and multifocal arteritis of the aorta and its branches, of unknown etiopathogenesis. Hypertension is a major complication, sometimes revealing the disease, whose mechanisms are multiple, dominated by the lesion of the aorta and renal arteries. Patients and methods: We report a series of 63 cases treated for Takayasu’s disease resulting from a monocentric, retrospective study from April 2oo6- July 2014, with an average age of 30 years with a female predominance of 83%. Result: In our series: 51 patients with hypertension, including 29 (57%) resistant hypertension (under tri see quadritherapy). In 87% of cases lesion of the supra aortic trunk, 29% with aortic lesions and renal arteries, 7.93% with isolated renal arteries and.. Read More»