Takayasu's arteritis presenting as acute STEMI
Maria Antonia Mesa-Maya1, Laura Duque-Gonzalez2, Sergio Franco-Sierra2
1AUNA Clínica Las Américas, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.
The Journal of Invasive Cardiology
|December 18, 2023
Abstract:
An 18-year-old man with past medical history of secondary arterial hypertension diagnosed at age 15 presented with an abdominal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that exhibited left renal artery stenosis.
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