An unusual “pulseless disease”
Simultaneous loss of upper extremity pulses, excluding shock, is present in clinical pictures like aortic dissection (type 1 sec. De Backey), but remarkably in Takayasu’s arteritis, named “pulseless disease”. We describe a case of loss of upper extremities pulses secondary to bilateral simultaneous...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2013-05-01
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Series: | Italian Journal of Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/317 |