Large arteries involvement in scleroderma--a case report.
The authors describe a thirty-nine-year-old woman patient presenting with progressive systemic sclerosis and an unusual angiographic picture of an impairment of large arteries, which in their opinion is due to the primary disease. The review literature reports about similar arterial involvement in scleroderma.
Alusík
S
S
Research Institute of Rheumatic Diseases, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Kovác
J
J
Peregrin
J
J
D000328:Adult; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D011928:Raynaud Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013348:Subclavian Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging