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Giant cell arteritis (GCA), also known as temporal arteritis, is the most common form of primary systemic vasculitis, with up to 75,000 cases a year identified in the EU and US. It occurs almost exclusively in people over the age of 50 years and is considered to be a medical emergency. If not
GCA is the most common vasculitis. The diagnosis easily could be made in patients over 50 years old with headache, inflammatory belt pain, claudication of the jaws, scalp hyperesthesia, ophthalmological manifestations and an inflammatory syndrome. However, the clinical pictures could be less
meningitis is a notifiable disease in many countries, the exact incidence rate is unknown. In 2013 meningitis resulted in 303,000 deaths - down from 464,000 deaths in 1990. In 2010 it was estimated that meningitis resulted in 420,000 deaths, excluding cryptococcal meningitis.
Bacterial meningitis
Vasculitis syndromes include: Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (HSP), connective tissue disorders e.g. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Rheumatoid arthritis...etc; where small vessels are mainly involved in the process of vasculitis. Vasculitis syndromes also include Kawasaki disease where also medium
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While atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia requiring therapy, it is also associated with increased risk of stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, dementia, and death. The number of Americans affected with AF is expected to surge to nearly 16
The two most important causes of iron overload disease in humans are the iron-loading disorder hereditary hemochromatosis (HC), and transfusional siderosis in patients with chronic hematological diseases like myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), thalassemia, and leukemia.
Hemochromatosis. In HC the
Background: In the emergency setting, non-traumatic headache (NTH) is in 80% a benign symptom, but serious causes have to be ruled out.
Copeptin, as a surrogate marker for antidiuretic hormone (ADH), is a marker for the individual stress level, even more subtle than cortisol. As a prognostic stress
GCA is a rare autoimmune disorder and is the most common type of inflammation of medium- to large-sized blood vessels in the body. It usually only occurs in older adults. The most common symptoms of GCA include headache, pain in the shoulders and hips (polymyalgia rheumatica), pain in the jaw (jaw