Authors: Yasser Ragab Yasser Emad A ElMarakbi Tamer Gheita
Publish Date: 2007/03/01
Volume: 26, Issue: 8, Pages: 1393-1395
Abstract
The first case of Takayasu’s arteritis TA was described in 1908 by Dr Mikito Takayasu 1 at the Annual Meeting of the Japan Ophthalmology Society Dr Takayasu described a peculiar “wreathlike” appearance of blood vessels in the back of the eye retina Two Japanese colleagues at the same meeting reported similar eye findings in patients whose wrist pulses were absent
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