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02.08.2019 | Clinical Image
Takayasu arteritis: “bitten apple” in the aorta, odd finding in a plain X-ray
verfasst von:
George E. Fragoulis, Gerasimos Evangelatos, Alexios Iliopoulos
Erschienen in:
Clinical Rheumatology
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Ausgabe 11/2019
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Excerpt
A 57-year-old lady with a history of diabetes mellitus was admitted in our clinic with fatigue and raised ESR (85 mm/1st h) and CRP (36 mg/L). Twelve years earlier, a stent had been placed for bilateral stenosis of aortoiliac arteries. One year after that, a CT (computed tomography) scan showed the atrophic left kidney and a CT angiography (CTA) revealed stenosis of both kidney arteries. An endovascular stent was placed in the right kidney artery (RKA). Patient did not seek for any further medical advice until her admission to our hospital. …