Introduction:

Takayasu arteritis is considered a rare disease that affects mainly young women where it produces alterations in the aorta and its main branches. This vasculitis has its epidemiological sustenance in the inflammation of the walls of the blood vessels which determines the intensity and severity of the clinical manifestations of the disease. Objective: to socialize the main clinical manifestations, epidemiological elements and complementary tests that allow the diagnosis of Takayasu arteritis.

Clinical case:

the case of a 36-year-old patient is presented, which is referred from primary health care, with clinical and laboratory manifestations that confirm the diagnosis of Takayasu's arteritis.

Conclusions:

The general, ophthalmological and cardiovascular manifestations were the most representative in this case. The identification of the same, together with the epidemiological elements and the results of the complementary tests constituted the diagnostic pillars of the disease. Steroids and immunosuppressants are the pharmaceutical groups most used in the treatment of TA. A high percentage of patients require surgical treatment.

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