Presentation
Headache, dizziness and phosphenes
Patient Data
Age: 25 years
Gender: Female
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Homogeneous circumferential thickening
Occlusions
Vascular dilatation
Increased flow velocity distal to the area of stenosis (normal PSV at ICA <125 cm/s)
Case Discussion
Takayasu arteritis is an idiopathic vascular pathology, that affects large vessels and mostly young women 1.
Initially it is clinically non-specific, and biopsy is rarely feasible, so imaging studies play a key role in diagnosis 2.