OCCLUSION OF ALL BRANCHES OF THE ARCUS AORTA IN A PATIENT WITH TAKAYASU ARTERITIS; CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Takayasu Arteritis is an inflammatory vascular disease which primarily affects the aorta and its major branches. The disease occurs mostly on women and the symptoms change due to the affected vessels. We want to present a patient whose major branches of the arcus aorta was totally occluded and the serebral circulation was dependent on the dilated right vertebral artery that also had a 60% stenosis. (Turkish J Vasc Surg 2006;15(1):31-35).