Abstract:

We report a young female patient presenting as malignant hypertension, blood pressure difference in arms, abnormal urine analysis, high ESR and CRP. After performing angiography, she was diagnosed as Takayasu’s arteritis, treated with prednisolone 30mg/d for two months and tripterygium wilfordii 60mg/d for ten years. During the ten-year follow-up, the patient remained remission with normal renal function and good-controlled blood pressure.