ABSTRACT
Nonspecific aortoarteritis (Takayasu s disease, obliterating aortoarteritis, disease of the missing pulse) is a systemic inflammatory disease of aorta and its branches, which leads to stenosis and ischemia of surrounding tissues. This disease is more common in young women and characterized by slowly progressive course with significant impairing quality of life. Etiology of the Takayasu's disease is unknown. Syndrome of the systemic inflammatory reaction with the clinical manifestations of the effects of lesions of the aorta and its branches at different anatomical levels (symptom: coarctation, abdominal ischemia, coronary, renovascular hypertension, lesions of the pulmonary artery) are criteria of this systematic process. Angiography can detect typical vascular changes due to a nonspecific aortoarteritis and remains the gold standard for its verification. The effectiveness of conservative therapy, surgical treatment, the prognosis for life is entirely determined by the detection of this insidious disease in the initial stages of its development. Until today, the early detection of non-specific aortoarteriite is not generally accepted and widely used, and therefore remain relevant.
