Catching Takayasu Early: Diagnosing the “Pulseless” Disease in a Child with Palpable Pulses

Table 1

Proposed classification criteria for childhood Takayasu arteritis.

Angiographic abnormalities (conventional, CT, or magnetic resonance angiography) of the aorta or its main branches and at least one of the following criteria
1	Decreased peripheral artery pulses and/or claudication of extremities
2	Blood pressure difference between arms or legs of >10 mm Hg
3	Bruits over the aorta and/or its major branches
4	Hypertension (defined by childhood normative data)
5	Elevated acute phase reactant (erythrocyte sedimentation rate or C-reactive protein)