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Wiad Lek
July 2024
SI ≪HEART INSTITUTE OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTHCARE OF UKRAINE≫, KYIV, UKRAINE; SHUPYK NATIONAL HEALTHCARE UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE, KYIV, UKRAINE.
Takayasu arteriitis (TA) is a rare systemic vasculitis, affecting large vessels, cardiac valves and myocardium. Cardiac involvement is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in such patients. This publication presents a clinical case of a patient with severe aortic regurgitation combined with restrictive cardiomyopathy.
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July 2024
Med. Klinik II, Bamberg Hospital, Bamberg, Germany.
Extraintestinal manifestations, e.g. of the skin, joints or liver, are frequently found in Crohn's disease.
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January 2024
Department of Rheumatology, Medical Faculty of Heinrich, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heine University, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Background: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) play a crucial role in assessing rheumatic diseases, offering insights into disease evaluation and treatment efficacy. This study focuses on PRO assessment in large vessel vasculitides, including Takayasu Arteritis and Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA).
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed routine data from patients treated at our rheumatology clinic over a 10-year span.
Front Cardiovasc Med
September 2022
Department for Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Objective: While aneurysm of the aortic root, interrupted aortic arch, and aortic coarctation are the most frequent aortic diseases in adolescents and younger adults, there are a number of rare pathologies of the thoracic aorta that need individualized treatment.
Patients: We present a small case series of unusual aortic pathologies in patients presenting with a broad spectrum of symptoms: tiredness, dysphagia, dyspnea, arterial hypertension, renal failure, and claudication. (1).
Dermatologie (Heidelb)
November 2022
Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Venerologie, Universitätsklinikum Halle/Saale, Halle/Saale, Deutschland.
A special form of the rare infantile Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) is facultative healing in the form of postinflammatory elastolysis with acquired cutis laxa, named "Marshall" syndrome after the authors who first described it. We report the case of a 3-year-old child in whom the cutaneous manifestation led to diagnosis of Takayasu arteritis. Postinflammatory elastolysis with acquired cutis laxa is a clinically relevant cutaneous indicator of life-threatening cardiovascular complications such as aortitis, aortic aneurysm, coronary stenosis and heart failure in children with Sweet's syndrome.
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