Takayasu's arteritis: low corticosteroid dosage and pregnancy--a case report.
The authors describe a case of Takayasu's arteritis in a twenty-five-year-old Italian woman, characterized by nonspecific symptoms (weakness, arthralgias, fever) and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate early onset of these symptoms at the age of about twenty-three years early diagnosis, only eighteen months after the onset of symptomatology absence of progression of the disease under corticosteroid therapy with a follow-up of three years uneventful pregnancy ending in cesarean section and birth of a baby without maternal and neonatal complications.
Del Corso
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Istituto Clinica Medica II, University of Pisa, Italy.
De Marco
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S
Vannini
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Pentimone
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F
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011859:Radiography; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy*
D011241:Prednisone