title: Takayasu's arteritis: low corticosteroid dosage and pregnancy--a case report.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Clinica Medica II, University of Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Del Corso
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De Marco
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vannini
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pentimone
mesh_terms: 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*
chemical_list: D011241:Prednisone