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T. Akhila Sailasree*, K. Samyuktha, Dr. T.V. Harsha Varun, Dr. C. Bhargav Reddy
It is a type of primary systemic vasculitis mainly affecting the medium and large arteries. It is a pulseless disease and chronic inflammatory arteritis affecting the aorta and its main branches it is rare condition affecting in women in the 2nd and 3rd decades of life. The signs and symptoms are due to inflammation or ischemia of an organ and include vascular pain, claudication, peripheral pulselessness, murmurs, myocardial infarction and severe systemic arterial hypertension. The disease more affect in women than men. We here by discuss an interesting case of a young lady presenting complaints pain over right side of the neck over arterial aspect since 7 months, throbbing type gradually progressive radiating to right side of the face, chest pain, breathlessness, abdomen pain, fever, loss of appetite, blurring of vision. Color Doppler ultra sound was sufficient for the diagnosis of TA after which we started the patient on medical patient with corticosteroids and immunosuppressive agents have been reported to the effective in some patients during the active phase and this is probably youngest case in hospital. Keywords: Vascular disease, Aorta, Corticosteroids, Hypertension, Auto immune