[Takayashu disease and pregnancy].
The case of a patient in whom pregnancy acted as a revelatory circumstance of a previously undetected Takayashu disease (Disease of pulseless women) fas led the authors to examine the few cases reported in the literature, and to conclude in the difficulty of diagnosis, high incidence of obstetrical operations as well as aggravation of long-term prognosis following pregnancy in such patients. Arteriography, decidual membrane biopsy of the uterus and microscopical examination of the placenta, still seldom performed studies, could perhaps help toward a better knowledge of the physiopathology of the accident occuring in these patients.
Schebat
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Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique, Hôpi tal Rothschild, Paris, France.
Berland
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000175:diagnosis*