title: Takayasu's disease presenting with pain chest, prolonged pyrexia and pleural effusion.
abstract: Takayasu's disease (TD) is a diffuse arteriopathy recognised by various names viz. Takayasu Arteritis, Takayasu's Disease, Takayasu Syndrome, Pulseless Disease, Non-specific Aortoarteritis, Reversed Coarctation, Aortic Arch Syndrome, Aortitis Syndrome, Young Female Arteritis, Idiopathic Arteritis and Martorell Syndrome. Though described about a century ago and with many eponyms, TD yet remains a challenging problem regarding etiopathogenesis, clinical presentation and management. We present a case of TD with pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO), angina and left sided pleural effusion.
authors.affiliation: Heart Hospital, Kankarbagh, Patna.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Achari
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Prakash
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology