[Clinical aspects and functional diagnostic findings of Takayasu disease]

Aetiopathogenesis, clinical picture, laboratorical and functional diagnostic methods of ten patients suffering from Takayasu's arteritis out of 1164 patients suspicious of cerebrovascular insufficiency are described. The combined use of Dopplersonography, ophthalmodynamometry and ophthalmodynamography permit in all cases the assessment of vascular pathology in supraaortic arteries. The specific diagnosis was made in connection which clinical, anamnestical and paraclinical findings. There are some characteristic functional diagnostic results in Takayasu's arteritis. The noninvasive diagnostic methods are useful tools to estimate the progredience of this disease in his chronical course.