Takayasu arteritis with calcified giant ventricular aneurysm. Presentation of a case
Llamas Esperón, G.; Núñez, B.; Nagore, N.; Sánchez Torres, G.; Barragán, R.
Archivos del Instituto de Cardiologia de Mexico 55(1): 75-80
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0020-3785 PMID: 2860877 Document Number: 249247
Takayasu Arteritis (TA) was thought to only involve the aortic arch and its main branches, but subsequent studies demonstrated that the arteritis in not confined to these areas. The process can involve, among others, the coronary arterial tree and is capable to produce myocardial infarction. Many authors thought that when patients with TA presented with heart failure, it was generally a consequence of extramyocardial factors such as systemic or pulmonary hypertension and/or aortic regurgitation. We present the case of a young female with TA and calcified giant ventricular aneurysm. We discuss the probabilities of its origin and emphasize the relationship between the pathologic findings and the possibility of direct myocardial damage by TA, but our impression is that it is due to coronary involvement because we found a lesion in the anterior descending artery.