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Vasculitis assessments—what do patients think?

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Takayasu arteritis is an understudied disease but a recent article emphasizes the heavy burden it imposes on patients. New assessments devised to improve disease understanding are based on physicians' concepts of disease severity. However, wide differences exist between patient and physician priorities and more work is now needed to improve patient quality-of-life.

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Figure 1: Arch aortogram in a patient with Takayasu arteritis.

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The authors would like to thank S. Hewlett for comments on the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Rheumatology, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    Paul A. Bacon

  2. Academic Rheumatology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, BS2 8HW, UK

    Tessa Sanderson

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Bacon, P., Sanderson, T. Vasculitis assessments—what do patients think?. Nat Rev Rheumatol 9, 641–642 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrrheum.2013.150

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