Asymmetric Pulses in a 5-Year-Old Asian Female: Is It Worth Further Investigations?

Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2016 Feb;55(2):192-5. doi: 10.1177/0009922815592609. Epub 2015 Jun 29.

Authors

Tarek Alsaied¹, Yasasvi Vasili², Ryan Moore³, Jessica McPhaul³, Pradeep Javarayee³, Robert Beekman³

Affiliations

¹ Cincinnati Children's Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA tarek.alsaied2@cchmc.org.
² James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA.
³ Cincinnati Children's Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

PMID: 26130390
DOI: 10.1177/0009922815592609

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Anti-Inflammatory Agents / therapeutic use
Aorta / physiopathology*
Asian People
Child, Preschool
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Imaging, Three-Dimensional
Immunosuppressive Agents / therapeutic use
Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Methotrexate / therapeutic use
Methylprednisolone / therapeutic use
Pulse*
Takayasu Arteritis / diagnosis*

Substances

Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Immunosuppressive Agents
Methylprednisolone
Methotrexate