Renovascular hypertension in aortic arch syndrome due to Takayasu's arterttis

✍ Scribed by D. W. Short; A. C. Kennedy; R. G. Luke; W. A. Mackey

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1965
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 339 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800521213

✦ Synopsis

UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS OF SURGERY AND MEDICINE, GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY

were the first to group the cases of 'obliteration of supra-aortic branches' into a clinical entity characterized by restriction of blood-supply to head and arms, and Frovig (1946) suggested the tcrm 'aortic arch syndrome'. T h e commonest cause is a primary non-syphilitic arteritis and, because it occurs almost exclusively in young