CASE REPORT

EIGHT-YEAR OLD CHILD WITH ADVANCED STAGE TAKAYASU’S ARTERITIS

1Muhammad Dilawar*, MD, FACC, 2Zaheer Ahmed, MBBS,
1Pediatric Cardiology, CCS, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar;
2Poole General Hospital, Poole, Dorset, UK

Introduction
 

T akayasu’s arteritis (TA) is a chronic, inflammatory disease that involves aorta, its branches and the pulmonary arteries1,2,3,4,5 Although TA is the most common acquired inflammatory vascular disease, it is still a rare problem in pediatric population. This disease most often affects young women and has a predilection for people of Asian descent. There is a paucity of literature addressing this disease in our pediatric population. We present an 8-years old male child diagnosed as TA with a very aggressive disease process.