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[Hypertension and Takayasu disease. Report of 8 cases]
S Fadouach1, M Abid-Allah, B A Mehadji
1Service de Cardiologie, CHU Ibn Rochd, Casablanca, Maroc.
Annales De Cardiologie Et D'Angeiologie
|October 17, 1998
Abstract:
In this paper, the authors report 8 cases of Takayasu disease presenting in the form of hypertension, observed in the Cardiology of Ibn Rochd University Hospital in Casablanca between 1983 and 1995. The majority of cases presented with renovascular HT, secondary to unilateral or bilateral renal artery stenosis. More rarely, the patients presented proximal hypertension secondary to coarctation of the aorta. Medical treatment was prescribed all 8 cases, associated with surgery in 8 cases.