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Giant cell arteritis associated with chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection [PDF]

Reumatismo, 2013
Giant cell arteritis is an inflammatory vasculopathy that preferentially affects medium-sized and large arteries. A viral cause has been suspected but not confirmed in polymyalgia rheumatica and giant-cell arteritis.
A. Giardina, A. Rizzo, A. Ferrante, G. Capra, G. Triolo, F. Ciccia   +5 more
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Purtscher-like retinopathy as a presenting ocular manifestation of biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis: A case report [PDF]

Journal of International Medical Research
Purtscher-like retinopathy is a rare retinal microangiopathy characterised by sudden visual loss, cotton wool spots, retinal whitening and variable retinal haemorrhage in the absence of trauma. Giant cell arteritis is an ophthalmic emergency that usually
Evangelia Papadopoulou, Georgios Arvanitidis, Ioannis Dragoumis, Konstantinos Stamoulas, Chrysoula Koutsiouki, Georgios D Panos   +5 more
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Carotid Artery Stenosis and Ischemic Strokes in Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis

TH Open, 2022
Purpose Ischemic stroke is a relatively rare complication of giant cell arteritis often accompanied by vessel stenosis. Our purpose was to compare the location of internal carotid artery stenosis in GCA patients by performing a literature review ...
Clemens Oerding, Frank Uhlmann, Johannes Wollmann, Ingmar Kaden, Kai Wohlfarth   +4 more
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SHOULD GIANTCELL ARTERITIS SIGNS BE DETECTED IN PATIENTS WITH HERPES ZOSTER?

Sanamed, 2021
Objective: This study aims to determine the clinical, laboratory, and ultrasonographic findings of giant cell arteritis in patients with Herpes Zoster.
Kulakli Fazil, Cayli Erdem, Kulakli Sevgi, Oguz Deniz Isil, Celik Canan, Yildizgoren Turgut Mustafa   +5 more
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Giant cell arteritis: A case report and review of literature

Radiology Case Reports, 2021
Giant cell arteritis, the most common form of vasculitis in the elderly, is characterized by granulomatous inflammation of arteries, which can lead to serious, life-threatening conditions including aortic aneurysms, ruptures, and dissections as well as ...
Matthew A. Crain, BS, Dhairya A. Lakhani, MD, Lana Winkler, MD, Ayodele Adelanwa, MD, Cathy Kim, MD   +4 more
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Clinical Features of Aortitis with Gastrointestinal Involvement

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Few vascultides have a predilection for the aorta. Among those are Takayasu arteritis, Behcet’s disease, giant cell arteritis, and infectious aortitis.
Mansour Altuwaijri, Abdulmajeed Altoijry
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Giant cell temporal arteritis associated with overlying basal cell carcinoma: co-incidence or connection?

Rare Tumors, 2012
Giant cell arteritis is a granulomatous vasculitis of large and medium sized arteries manifesting as temporal arteritis and/or polymyalgia rheumatica.
Salem Alowami, Anita Bane, Dina El Demellawy, Etienne Mahe   +3 more
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Myocardial Infarction Due to Giant Cell Arteritis: A Case Report and Literature Review

Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2007
Giant cell arteritis occurs mainly in the cranial arteries, especially in the temporal area, and rarely in the coronary arteries. Here, we present a case of coronary artery giant cell arteritis in a 51-year-old woman who complained of atypical chest pain.
Long-Wei Lin, Shoei-Shen Wang, Chia-Tung Shun   +2 more
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Giant cell arteritis with adventitial pattern in a 51‐year‐old man: A case report

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Clinical presentation as well as histological or biological findings can sometimes make the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis difficult. Histopathological features of temporal artery biopsy from giant cell arteritis patients are also challenging because ...
Abeline Kapuczinski, Nathalie Demeulenaere, Nadine Tavares Ferreira, Aurélia Ciamala, Camélia Rossi, Stefan Rusu, Myriam Remmelink, Frédéric Vandergheynst, Marc Léon   +8 more
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Paroxysmal hemicrania as the clinical presentation of giant cell arteritis

Clinics and Practice, 2011
Head pain is the most common complaint in patients with giant cell arteritis but the headache has no distinct diagnostic features. There have been no published reports of giant cell arteritis presenting as a trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia.
Jennifer L. Beams, Todd D. Rozen
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