Open AccessLong-term outcome for 120 Japanese patients with Takayasu's disease. Clinical and statistical analyses of related prognostic factors.
Author(s) -
K. Ishikawa,
Shunzo Maetani
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.90.4.1855
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , term (time) , outcome (game theory) , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , physics , mathematics , mathematical economics , quantum mechanics
Patients with Takayasu's disease, a chronic inflammatory arteriopathy of unknown cause, have variable clinical courses, and predictors of the long-term outcome are not well understood. We studied prognostic factors of this disease, based on follow-up results, and a new prognostic classification was proposed.
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