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Objective: Takayasu’s arteritis is an inflammatory vascular disease of unknown etiology that affects the aorta and its main branches, requiring surgical intervention due to occlusive lesions. We studied early and late surgical results. Methods: Between 1979 and December 1998,46 patients — 1 man and 45 women aged 15 to 72 years (mean: 46 ± 13 years) — with occlusive lesions caused by Takayasu’s arteritis underwent surgery. Preoperative steroids were administered to 22 patients having inflammation. Diagnosis indicating surgery included obstructive cervical vessel disease in 13 patients, obstructive coronary artery disease in 19, aortic coarctation in 15, and abdominal branch stenosis in 3. Surgical procedures involved bypass grafting in 31 (cervical vessel bypass in 13, ascending-abdominal aortic bypass in 4, axillary artery-abdominal aortic bypass in 10, descending-abdominal aortic bypass in 1, abdominal branch bypass in 3), coronary artery bypass grafting in 10, and coronary ostial endarterectomy in 9. Results: Four (8.7%) died during hospitalization. Follow-up ranged from 1 to 240 months (mean: 117 months). Eight suffered late deaths and 6 patients died of cardiovascular problems. The total actuarial survival rate was 76.2% at 5 years and 70.5% at 10 years. Conclusions: Steroid therapy before and after surgery appears to affect the overall prognosis positively in patients with Takayasu’s arteritis.
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Ando, M., Sasako, Y., Okita, Y. et al. Surgical considerations of occlusive lesions associated with Takayasu’s arteritis. Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg 48, 173–179 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03218116
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