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Pulmonary Artery Involvement in Takayasu's Arteritis

Completed
Conditions
Pulmonary Artery Hypertension
Takayasu Arteritis
Registration Number
NCT03189602
Lead Sponsor
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to analyze the clinical manifestations, imaging features, and prognosis-related factors of pulmonary artery (PA) involvement in Takayasu's arteritis (TA), and to explore the early clinical features of PA involvement in TA patients.

Detailed Description

Takayasu's arteritis patients with pulmonary artery involvement were enrolled into this study. The demographic information of the patients (age, sex, course of disease), symptoms at their admissions (cough, hemoptysis, dyspnea, palpitations, fever), laboratory examinations (blood lab routines, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein), and imaging examinations (vascular ultrasonography, computed tomographic angiography, echocardiography, chest CT, CTPA, pulmonary perfusion imaging, pulmonary angiography, PET/CT) were collected by reviewing the cases. The prognostic information was collected by telephone follow-up. The follow-up end point was December 2015.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
51
Inclusion Criteria
  • 1.Meet the diagnostic criteria of TA as defined by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR).
  • 2.PA involvement: meet at least one of three items: (1) at least one of computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA), pulmonary perfusion imaging, or pulmonary arteriography suggests thickening of vessel wall, stenosis, aneurysm, or occlusion; (2) 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) suggests high intake of local radioactive material in pulmonary artery wall; (3) pulmonary artery systolic blood pressure is higher than 50 mmHg assessed by transthoracic echocardiography (defined as PAH), without left ventricular disease.
Exclusion Criteria

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pulmonary Artery Systolic Blood Pressure1day

Pulmonary artery systolic blood pressure(PASP) assessed by transthoracic echocardiography when admission. PASP\>50mmHg is defined as pulmonary hypertension.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Peking Union Medical College Hospital

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Beijing, Beijing, China

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