• 1. Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100029, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Invasive Technology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100029, P. R. China;
YANG Jinghua, Email: yjh651216@163.com
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ObjectiveTo enhance the understanding of Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) with pulmonary vascular involvement through the analyses on clinical features.MethodsA retrospective study was conducted to analyze the clinical records of patients diagnosed as TA with pulmonary vascular involvement admitted to Beijing Anzhen Hospital from January 2007 to August 2017.ResultsIn recent 10 years, there were 233 patients diagnosed as TA in Beijing Anzhen Hospital, 17 of them were involved with pulmonary arterial, which accounted for 7.3%. Fourteen patients were females, 3 patients were males. The age ranged from 16 to 59 years with an average of (40±13) years. Among the 17 patients, dyspnea (15 cases, 88.2%) was the most common symptom, and unequal blood pressure of upper limbs (9 cases, 52.9%) was the main sign. Thirteen patients had pulmonary hypertension by echocardiographic examination. Angiographic data showed that multi-lobular and multi-segmental pulmonary branches were predominantly affected. Unilateral involvement of pulmonary artery was more common than bilateral involvement, while the right pulmonary arteries were more often affected than the left. Thirteen patients received hormone and immunosuppressive therapy, 11 patients received anticoagulation or antiplatelet therapy, and 5 patients received targeted treatment of pulmonary artery pressure.ConclusionsThe clinical manifestation of TA is unspecific and misdiagnosis rate is relatively high. Improving the understanding of TA is necessary so as to reduce the misdiagnosis rate at an early stage and ameliorate the prognosis.

Citation: XIAO Yao, YANG Jinghua, HUANG Xiaoyong, ZHANG Ying, WU Chunting. The analysis of the clinical records diagnosed as Takayasu’s arteritis with pulmonary vascular involvement. Chinese Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2018, 17(4): 364-368. doi: 10.7507/1671-6205.201803040 Copy

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