About polyarteritis major

      Multiple aortitis is an autoimmune disease that affects young women and is mainly characterized by narrowing or occlusion of the affected arteries. Depending on the location of the lesion, it can be divided into head and arm trunk type, thoracoabdominal aorta type, renal artery type, mixed type, and in recent years also found to have pulmonary artery or coronary artery involvement. Generally speaking, in the active stage of the disease, the first thing should be drug control of inflammatory response, the main index is blood sedimentation, wait until the blood sedimentation is basically normal, and then decide whether surgical treatment is needed according to the severity of the lesion, including surgery and intracavitary treatment.