DIAGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE AND C-REACTIVE PROTEIN IN THE PROGNOSIS OF THE COURSE OF NONSPECIFIC AORTOARTERITIS

Аннотация

Morphological studies have proved that nonspecific aortoarteritis (NAA) is a granulomatous vasculitis of large vessels of autoimmune origin, which dynamically leads to stenoses, occlusions or aneurysmal dilations of the aorta and its branches, in most cases – subclavian, common carotid arteries with a wavy course and alternating active and inactive stages of the process. Treatment of NAA is complex – conservative (glucocorticosteroids, cytostatics, targeted cytokine inhibitors) and operative (reconstruction of arteries to eliminate clinically significant stenoses of the branches of the aortic arch). At the same time, surgical intervention in the acute stage of NAA is associated with worse results, and markers for separation at the NAA stage are under study and have not been definitively determined.