Advances in Takayasu arteritis: An Asia Pacific perspective

Debashish Danda; Prathyusha Manikuppam; Xinping Tian; Masayoshi Harigai

doi:10.3389/fmed.2022.952972

Frontiers in Medicine (Aug 2022)

Advances in Takayasu arteritis: An Asia Pacific perspective

Debashish Danda,
Prathyusha Manikuppam,
Xinping Tian,
Masayoshi Harigai

Affiliations

Debashish Danda: Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India
Prathyusha Manikuppam: Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India
Xinping Tian: Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases (NCRC-DID), Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), Beijing, China
Masayoshi Harigai: Division of Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology of Rheumatic Diseases, Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.952972
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9

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Takayasu Arteritis (TA) is a rare form of chronic granulomatous large vessel vasculitis that is more common in Asia compared to other parts of the world. There have been several developments in the field of Takayasu arteritis in relation to genetics, classification, clinical features, imaging, disease activity assessment and management and much of these works have been done in the Asia Pacific region. We will be discussing selected few in the current review.

Published in Frontiers in Medicine

ISSN: 2296-858X (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
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