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Myocardial Infarction Due to Giant Cell Arteritis: A Case Report and Literature Review

open access: yesKaohsiung 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Tale of Diagnostic Delay with Detrimental Consequences: Illustrating the Challenging Nature of Diagnosing Giant Cell Arteritis

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2021
Giant cell arteritis is a medical emergency as severe, irreversible complications may occur if it is not treated in a timely manner. However, in daily practice early diagnosis can be challenging.
Marieke van Nieuwland   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesReumatismo, 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Giant cell arteritis with adventitial pattern in a 51‐year‐old man: A case report

open access: yesClinical 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   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pathogenesis of polymyalgia rheumatica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a chronic, inflammatory disorder of unknown cause, almost exclusively occurring in people aged over 50 and often associated with giant cell arteritis.
Ciccia F.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Repurposing Interleukin-6 Inhibitors to Combat COVID-19. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a pandemic with major implications across the world. One of the most frequent causes of death from SARS-CoV-2 is fatal pneumonia from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is associated
Kato, Shumei, Kurzrock, Razelle
core   +1 more source

Paroxysmal hemicrania as the clinical presentation of giant cell arteritis

open access: yesClinics 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
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the painful, uninflamed eye in primary care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We acknowledge the important contributions of Professor Amada J Lee, University of Aberdeen, Division of Statistics, for assistance with analysing the data from the patient survey.
Dick, Andrew   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Audio-vestibular symptoms in systemic autoimmune diseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Immune-mediated inner ear disease can be primary, when the autoimmune response is against the inner ear, or secondary. The latter is characterized by the involvement of the ear in the presence of systemic autoimmune conditions. Sensorineural hearing loss
Adelchi, Croce   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Assessment of acute headache in adults - what the general physician needs to know. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +9 more
core   +1 more source

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