Successful treatment of dissecting aortic aneurysm due to giant cell arteritis.
- 1 October 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
- Vol. 40 (5) , 507-508
- https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.40.5.507
Abstract
A 72 yr old woman with polymyalgia rheumatica clinically controlled on maintenance steroid therapy presented with symptoms of chest pain and numbness in the right arm. A diagnosis of dissecting aortic aneurysm was confirmed at thoracotomy and the aorta was successfully resected. Histology revealed active giant cell aortitis. Apparently, a normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate in patients with treated temporal arteritis does not preclude large vessel involvement.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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