Revisiting the history of Takayasu disease: studies and surgical treatment

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 tupes of large and medium caliber with localization of 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.