creators_name: Roychowdhury, Joydeb creators_name: Kundu, AK creators_name: Sen, A creators_name: Dawn, S creators_id: rcjoydeb@gmail.com editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas type: journale datestamp: 2010-09-13 03:55:26 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:41 metadata_visibility: show title: Successful Pregnancy Outcome in a Patient With Aortoarteritis ispublished: pub subjects: OJHAS full_text_status: public keywords: Takayasu’s disease, Aortoarteritis, Intrauterine growth restriction abstract: Aortoarteritis, also known as Takayasu’s arteritis, aortic arch syndrome or pulseless disease is a rare vascular disease that cause progressive damage including inflammation, scarring, narrowing and abnormal ballooning inside the wall of aorta and major arteries. This case report of aortoarteritis in pregnancy was diagnosed during pregnancy,and successful pregnancy outcome was achieved by combined multidisciplinary supervision of experts date: 2009-11-15 date_type: published publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences volume: 8 number: 3 publisher: Dr. BS Kakkilaya refereed: TRUE referencetext: 1. Christine Hom. Takayasu arteritis. March,2006 Available at http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1007566-overview 2. Sharma BK, Jain S. A possible role of sex distribution in determining distribution of lesions in Takayasu’s arteritis. Int J Cardiol 1998;68(suppl 1):S81-4. 3. Choudhari KR, Mayadeo N. Aortoarteritis in pregnancy. Bombay Hospital Journal. 2002 Jul;44(3):444-5 4. Yamada I, Numano F, Suzuki S. Takayasu arteritis. evaluation with MR imaging. Radiology 1993 Jul;188(1):89-94. 5. Kissin EY, Merkel PA. Diagnostic imaging in Takayasu arteritis. Curr Opin Rheumatol 2004 Jan;16(1):31-7. 6. Tyagi S, Kaul UA, Nair M. Balloon angioplasty of the aorta in Takayasu's arteritis. initial and long-term results. Am Heart J 1992 Oct;124(4):876-82 7. Sharma BK, Jain S. Outcome of pregnancy in Takayasu’s arteritis. Int J Cardiol 2000;75(suppl):S159-162 8. Wong VCW, Wang RYC, Tse TF. Pregnancy and Takayasu’s arteritis. Am J Med 1983;75:597-601. citation: Roychowdhury, Joydeb and Kundu, AK and Sen, A and Dawn, S (2009) Successful Pregnancy Outcome in a Patient With Aortoarteritis. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/6965/1/2009-3-18.pdf