Renal angioplasty for refractory renovascular hypertension in an adolescent with Takayasu's arteritis: A case report

• Main Authors: Itihas Gowda (Author), Ajay Walimbe (Author), Guruprasad Hassan Shankar (Author), Bhakti U Sarangi (Author), Jitendra S Oswal (Author), Ravi Kalra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a rare primary vasculitis, typically affecting the aorta and its main branches causing progressive vessel wall inflammation with concentric wall thickening and stenosis producing a variety of ischemic symptoms or aneurysms. Although etiopathogenesis of this disease...