Immunosuppression medication and cardiac function improvement treatments might prevent Takayasu arteritis patients with aortitis from receiving cardiac surgery

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Rheumatology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
• ² Department of Rheumatology, Linyi People's Hospital, Linyi, Shandong 276003, China.
• ³ Department of Rheumatology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical College, Shanghai 200025, China.
• ⁴ Department of Rheumatology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330006, China.
• ⁵ Department of Rheumatology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical College, Shanghai 200001, China.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
• ⁷ Evidence-based Medicine Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.