title: Diagnosis and surgical treatment of a Takayasu disease on an abdominal aortic dissection.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To report the rare diagnosis and the surgical treatment of a young patient presenting a symptomatic dissection of the abdominal aorta revealing a Takayasu's arteritis (TA).
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 24-year-old woman developed a painful chronic dissection of the infrarenal aorta associated with a claudication of both lower extremities. As the patient was still symptomatic despite an optimal medical treatment, a surgical revascularization was proposed. An aortobifemoral bypass was performed allowing the removal of infrarenal aorta and the histologic diagnosis of TA.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Isolated abdominal aortic dissection is an unusual event in TA, and this is the first surgically treated case. Only few reports of aortic dissection in TA have been published so far which are commented in this article.
authors: Service de Chirurgie Cardio-Vasculaire, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou-APHP, Université René-Descartes, Paris, France.
authors: Theresa
authors: T
authors: Khalife
authors: Jean-Marc
authors: JM
authors: Alsac
authors: Marc
authors: M
authors: Lambert
authors: Emmanuel
authors: E
authors: Messas
authors: Jean-Paul
authors: JP
authors: Duong Van Huyen
authors: Patrick
authors: P
authors: Bruneval
authors: Patrick
authors: P
authors: Farahmand
authors: Pierre
authors: P
authors: Julia
authors: Jean-Noël
authors: JN
authors: Fabiani
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D001027:Aortography / Q000379:methods; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures; D055815:Young Adult