Abstract:
Nonspecific aortoarteritis (Takayasu disease) is a systemic disease belonging to the group
of vasculitis, mainly affecting the arteries of the elastic and muscular-elastic types of large and
medium caliber with localization of the inflammatory process in the media and adventitia. The
article describes the history of the development of ideas about clinical manifestations,
morphological changes and the course of the disease from 1761 to the present, the chronology of
medical achievements in the study of this disease.
