Vasculitis and Limb Threatening Ischaemia

Autor:	VB Dhillon, Sca Fraser, RL Cornell
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Internal medicine Ischemia Cardiology Medicine General Medicine business medicine.disease Vasculitis
Zdroj:	Scottish Medical Journal. 54:58-58
ISSN:	2045-6441 0036-9330
Popis:	Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common systemic vasculitis in patients over 50 years. Classically patients present with temporal pain and visual disturbance, with less than 9% presenting with extracranial involvement. We present three cases GCA presenting with limb threatening ischaemia. Each diagnosis was made after clinical suspicion prompted measurement of inflammatory markers. Following treatment with high dose steroid each patient made a rapid and dramatic recovery and avoided unnecessary major surgical revascularisation or lower limb amputation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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