Takayasu's arteritis is a nonspecific inflammatory vascular disease of unknown origin. It most often causes stenosis of the aorta or its branch arteries with ischemic changes in the organs supplied, but the vessels inside these organs are not
directly
involved.
From 1983 to 1991, we performed operation on 6 patients with Takayasu's arteritis. There were 6 female patients ranging in age from 17 years to 36 years.
Symptoms included headache, dizzness, visual disturbance, and motor weakness or pain of arm. In 5 cases, bypass graft arised from ascening aorta (ventral aorta) were done, and in one, stenotic segments of left subclavian and vertebral arteries
were
resected an graft interposition done.
Follow-up has been 62.4±34.8 months (ranging from 11 to 13 months), results of each patient were exellent, except one postoperative death.
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