Takayasu's disease or nonspecific arteritis young woman, was long regarded as a condition typical of the Asian race, a concept that has been distorted by Western publications increasingly frequent. From the clinical point of view is regarded as primarily neurological, cardiovascular and ocular manifestadones those discussed apropos of a personal case: ill 25-year-old with a history of probable tuberculous infection, who has six years a neurological condition characterized by headache paroxysmal, intermittent claudication and visual facio-brachial muscle; then a apoplectic stroke with coma for three days and right hemiparesis discreet; days after a new apoplectic stroke with coma vigil for two and half months, bilateral motor disorders, mixed aphasia a right hemiplegia persisted for seven months and then monopleiía with predominantly distal hypoesthesia brachial until today. The review f...