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A Rare Case of Giant Cell Arteritis Affecting Two Giants: Pulmonary and Root of Aorta Aneurysm. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Aneurysms of pulmonary arteries and aorta are rare, typically caused by infections, congenital heart defects, vascular abnormalities, or medical interventions. This report presents an unusual case of a 72‐year‐old man with a history of smoking, hypertension, and emphysema, who was found to have a large pulmonary artery aneurysm (63.5 mm) and ...
Acharya G, Baloch H, Masuta P, Pandit R, Kimelheim R, Tiwari P.   +5 more
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Takayasu Arteritis in a 55-Year-Old Woman With Prior <i>Mycobacterium leprae</i> Infection: A Possible Postinfectious Association. [PDF]

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ABSTRACT Takayasu arteritis (TAK) is a rare large‐vessel vasculitis affecting the aorta and its major branches. Although autoimmune mechanisms are central, prior mycobacterial infections have been hypothesized to contribute to the disease onset. A 55‐year‐old South Asian woman with a history of vitiligo and treated multibacillary leprosy presented with
Bhattarai U, Jha A, Shrestha I, Lamar N, Parajuli M, Bhujel S, Majhi D, Paudel K.   +7 more
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Ultrasound versus temporal artery biopsy in patients with Giant cell arteritis: a prospective cohort study

BMC Medical Imaging, 2019
Background Diagnosis of giant cell arteritis by temporal artery biopsy is time-consuming and visual loss lies in the first week after its diagnosis. The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that ultrasound can reduce the risk of overdiagnosis ...
Quan Zou, Sumei Ma, Xinghu Zhou
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Assessment of acute headache in adults - what the general physician needs to know. [PDF]

, 2018
Headache is common. Up to 5% of attendances to emergency departments and acute medical units are due to headache. Headache is classified as either primary (eg migraine, cluster headache) or secondary to another cause (eg meningitis, subarachnoid ...
Agrawal, Cappelen-Smith, Dodick, Hoffmann, Mac Grory, Macdonald, omi, Savitz, Sheikh, Solomon   +9 more
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Glucocorticoids—All-Rounders Tackling the Versatile Players of the Immune System [PDF]

, 2019
Glucocorticoids regulate fundamental processes of the human body and control cellular functions such as cell metabolism, growth, differentiation, and apoptosis.
Agarwal, Al-Mousawi, Allen, Almawi, Anderson, Andreae, Annunziato, Anthony, Arya, Avnir, Avnir, Baatjes, Banchereau, Banuelos, Banuelos, Barnes, Beck, Beck, Belvisi, Bengtsson, Benson, Bentley, Berdeli, Blotta, Borish, Brack, Bradding, Braun, Brozek, Burger, Buttgereit, Buttgereit, Buttgereit, Capell, Chan, Chatham, Chen, Choo, Chung, Clutterbuck, Cohn, Corbera-Bellalta, Cosmi, Cosmi, Crocker, Cronstein, Damsker, Dao Nguyen, Daynes, Daynes, de Castro Kroner, Deng, Dolhain, Dorner, Dougherty, Durham, Eichenauer, Eichhorst, Eklund, Erin, Espigol-Frigole, Fanouriakis, Finotto, Firestein, Firestein, Franchimont, Franchimont, Franco, Gao, Geginat, Gemou-Engesaeth, Gladman, Gomes, Gracie, Gregersen, Greiner, Grindebacke, Guiducci, Gupta, Hadji, Hagan, Hahn, Hamid, Hamid, Hanahan, Haneda, Hartl, Hasegawa, Hawrylowicz, Hehlmann, Heidari, Heiman, Hellmich, Hermann-Kunz, Hernandez-Rodriguez, Hicsonmez, Hirahara, Hoelzer, Hollenberg, Hu, Hussain, Hutchison, Inaba, Ismaili, Jacobi, Jacobi, Jee, Jennette, Jiang, Jin, Jing, John, Jones, Jones, Kansal, Kaplan, Karagiannidis, Kirwan, Klarenbeek, Klassen, Kleiman, Klein, Klimek, Kotake, Kotake, Kovalovsky, Kremer, Kruth, Leppert, Li, Li-Weber, Liberman, Liles, Lim, Lin, Linden, Liu, Loetscher, Lohse, Lugar, Luo, Machold, Maggi, Maneechotesuwan, Manzoni, Martinez-Sanchez, Maruotti, Matsui, Matteson, McDonough, Meagher, Mercieca, Merrill, Miller, Miltenburg, Mitra, Miyasaka, Miyaura, Moallem, Morita, Moynihan, Mozo, Muehling, Munck, Muraro, Murphy, Naseer, Neeck, Neeck, Nicholson, O'Byrne, O'Byrne, Oakley, Oakley, Ochiai, Odendahl, Oppong, Ospelt, Parrillo, Patel, Pawankar, Pearson, Perez-Guerrero, Pers, Picchianti-Diamanti, Pratt, Pratt, Pui, Qin, Quinn, Radich, Rainer, Rak, Ramirez, Rank, Ratman, Refojo, Reichardt, Rider, Ring, Robinson, Robinson, Ronnblom, Ruiz-Arruza, Saadoun, Sallusto, Samson, Samson, Santos, Schacke, Schacke, Scherlinger, Schmitz, Schug, Shah, Shaw, Shlomchik, Siegel, Smith, Smolen, Smolen, Song, Stahn, Stahn, Stellato, Stone, Strehl, Strehl, Tanaka, Terrades-Garcia, Theofilopoulos, Thomas, Thomas, Till, Tuckermann, Turjeman, Ulmansky, Umetsu, van der Geest, van Oosterhout, Vandevyver, Verhoef, Verstappen, von Bernus, von Hertzen, Waknine-Grinberg, Walker, Wang, Wassenberg, Watanabe, Wen, Weyand, Weyand, Wheatley, Wikstrom, Willemze, Wills-Karp, Wills-Karp, Wollenberg, Wollenberg, Wright, Wu, Wuthrich, Xystrakis, Yamamoto, Yan, Yang, Ying, Zubiaga   +268 more
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Primary Systemic Al Amyloidosis Presenting as Temporal Arteritis

Case Reports in Rheumatology, 2014
Temporal arteritis is most common vasculitis in elderly and imitated by miscellaneous disorders. Temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard test in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA).
Hakan Emmungil, Melike Kalfa, Burcu Başarık, Hasip Kahraman, Ferhat Tanhan, Banu Yaman, Atiye Öztürk, Zehra Erdemir, Gülşen Kandiloğlu, Vedat İnal, Yasemin Kabasakal   +10 more
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Diagnosis of giant cell arteritis by head-contrast three-dimensional computed tomography angiography: two case reports

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019
Introduction Temporal artery biopsy is essential for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis. It has been shown that 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography, magnetic resonance angiography, and ultrasonography are useful for
Toshio Kawamoto, Michihiro Ogasawara, Souichiro Nakano, Yuko Matsuki−Muramoto, Masakazu Matsushita, Kenjiro Yamanaka, Ken Yamaji, Naoto Tamura   +7 more
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Clinical features of varicella-zoster virus infection [PDF]

, 2018
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a pathogenic human herpes virus that causes varicella (chickenpox) as a primary infection, following which it becomes latent in peripheral ganglia.
Gershon, Anne A., Kennedy, Peter G.E.
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Opportunistic Infections in Patients with Temporal Arteritis Treated with Corticosteroids [PDF]

, 1997
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/111238/1/j.1532-5415.1997.tb00949.x ...
Bonilla, Hector F., Bradley, Suzanne F., Hedderwick, Sara A., Kauffman, Carol A.   +3 more
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Temporal arteritis: A case series from south India and an update of the Indian scenario

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2012
Objective: To study the clinical, pathological and prognostic profile of patients with temporal arteritis in India. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in a tertiary care center from south India from 2005 to 2010 in the departments of ...
Thomas Mathew, Sushanth Aroor, Anup J Devasia, Anita Mahadevan, Vineeta Shobha, Raghunandan Nadig, Raji Varghese, S K Shankar, G. R. K. Sarma   +8 more
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