Takayas's Arteritis: Clinical presentation, treatment and importance of Triplex Carotid scanning

The authors present the case of a 25-year-old woman, with a long standing systemic inflammatory syndrome and non specific features. The patient was exhaustively studied as an inpatient but a firm diagnosis was not reached. 3.5 months after the initial symptoms and following a Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA), the suspicion of Takayasu Arteritis was raised following a colour doppler flow image of the cervical vessels. The diagnosis was later confirmed by pan-aortography. The objective of this paper is to review the clinical features, monitoring of disease progression and treatment of, highlighting the role of colour doppler flow image in screening and follow-up of the disease.