Takayasu’s disease in an IgG4-positive patient with tuberculosis, pulmonary hemorrhage, recurrent myocarditis, and transient bilateral visual impairments

Abstract

Takayasu’s disease (nonspecific aortoarteritis) affects the absolute majority of 20—40-year-old women; its most common manifestations include aortic arch branch lesions. The specific features of the described case is the male gender of the patient, signs of mesenchymal dysplasia, a concurrence of tuberculosis, pulmonary hemorrhage, and myocarditis at onset, the presence of IgG4, peculiar ocular symptomatology, and its rapid regression after initiation of therapy.

Keywords

• nonspecific aortoarteritis
• takayasu’s disease
• myocarditis
• transient bilateral blindness
• tuberculosis
• pulmonary hemorrhage
• mesenchymal dysplasia
• igg4-related diseases
• immunosuppressive therapy