DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2019.v07i03.003

Pages: 179-180

Takayasu’s arteritis is an inflammatory disase often affecting the ascending aorta and aortic arch, causing obstruction of the aorta and its major arteries. Cardiac involvement especially acute heart failure at presentation is rarely seen [1] . Present case is a 45year old female patient who was brought to hospital with exertional dyspnoea and bilateral pitting pedal edema. During examination radial and brachial pulses were found to be not palabable and raised a suspicion followed by CT aortogram which suggested the diagnosis of takaysu’s arteritis. She was symptomatically treated for cardiac failure along with corticosteroids, improved clinically and is been on followup eversince.