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Takayasu arteritis is a nonspecific inflammatory disease affecting the aorta and its main branches [1]. Some cases have been reported in which the pulmonary artery was also involved [2, 3]. the etiology of this pathologic process is not clear, but the high incidence of positive tuberculin reaction in the affected patients suggests that the disease is related to tuberculosis [2, 4].
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Ovseyevitz, J. et al. (1986). Takayasu Arteritis in Children. In: Doyle, E.F., Engle, M.A., Gersony, W.M., Rashkind, W.J., Talner, N.S. (eds) Pediatric Cardiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8598-1_274
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