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Giant-cell Arteritis, or Arteritis of the Aged [PDF]
BMJ, 1960 Giant-cell arteritis, once believed to run a benign course, kills or maims a number of those afflicted, and when in remission it may only sleep. We hope for wider recognition of this common disorder, which is treatable for the most part, but if untreated may progress slowly with pain, palsy, blindness, deafness, and madness in its train, or sometimes ...
J. W. Paulley, James P. Hughes
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018 Takayasu arteritis is an idiopathic granulomatous vasculitis of the aorta and its main branches and it constitutes one of the more common vasculitides in children.
Ricardo A. G. Russo, María M. Katsicas
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Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, 2005 Temporal arteritis, a chronic inflammatory vasculitis involving medium- and large-sized arteries, has rarely been reported in Asia. However, we report 2 cases, in which the patients initially presented with headache. Physical examination disclosed engorged, hard and palpable vessels in the temporal areas.
Chen, Chun-Hsiung +5 more
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017 Cannabis is the most consumed psychoactive substance by young people. Chronic use of cannabis can lead to cannabis arteritis, which is a very rare peripheral vascular disease similar to Buerger's disease.
Naoual El Omri +6 more
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BMJ, 1981 Arteritis affecting the arm vessels occurs in giant-cell arteritis, Takaysu's arteritis syphilis, and Buerger's disease. The lesions are seldom confined to the arms, however, and each condition has a characteristic clinical presentation. We report on a patient with symmetrical arteritis of the arms associated with circulation immune complexes.
Andrew J. Peacock +2 more
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Takayasu's disease presenting with tubercular empyema: A rare presentation of a rare disease
Journal of the Scientific Society, 2023 Takayasu's disease (TD) also known as pulseless disease is an arteriopathy characterized by vasculitis affecting the aorta and its branches. It is also known as aortic arch syndrome, nonspecific aorto-arteritis, and young female arteritis.
Neha Gajanan Phate +4 more
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Biomedicines, 2023 Non-atherosclerotic aortic arch pathologies (NA-AAPs) and anatomical variants are characterized as rare cardiovascular diseases with a low incidence rate, below 1 case per 2000 population, but enormous heterogeneity in terms of anatomical variants, i.e.,
Magdalena Wawak +7 more
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