takayasu arteritis: diagnosed and treated as labyrinthitis

The objective of this paper is to report a case of a patient with takayasu arteritis (ta), diagnosed and treated as labyrinthitis for two years, with brief review of the literature. a 36-year-old woman, who presented vertigo, falling on the ground for losing consciousness for a few seconds, and.progressive loss of left vision, was admitted to the emergency with headache and impalpable carotid pulses. the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ecr) and c-reactive protein (crp) serological tests were increased; however, the anf (antinuclear factor), venereal disease research laboratory (vdrl) and fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption (ft-abs) were negative. after aortography, she developed convulsive seizures, loss of consciousness, hemodynamic instability, and death. the cause of death was distributive shock.