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Volume 2004, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0253-8253
  • EISSN: 2227-0426

Abstract

Takayasu's arteritis is a rare inflammatory arteriopathy that affects predominantly young females and segmentally involves the aorta and its major branches. Infectious, hereditary, and autoimmune causes of Takayasu's arteritis have all been suggested; yet there is no consensus regarding its cause.

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