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Type 3 takayasu arteritis diagnosed by parvus‐tardus renal Doppler signal modulation
Author(s) -
Koc Ural
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.22460
Subject(s) - medicine , abdominal aorta , arteritis , radiology , takayasu arteritis , ultrasound , angiography , doppler ultrasound , etiology , cardiology , aorta , vasculitis , disease
ABSTRACT Takayasu's arteritis is known to cover the youngest age group in the etiology of secondary hypertension. The type 3 pattern is rare and involves the thoraco‐abdominal aorta and its main abdominal branches. Here, we present the imaging results of a patient who had been followed up for systemic arterial hypertension and was diagnosed with Takayasu's arteritis type 3 by CT and MR angiography following bilateral detection of a parvus‐tardus Doppler signal modulation in the renal arteries. We discuss the differential diagnoses that should be considered when observing a tardus‐parvus Doppler signal. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 45 :612–615, 2017