arteritis/fatigue

Giant cell arteritis is a systemic disease of unknown origin. Vasculitis involves large and medium-sized vessels. Frequent clinical manifestations include characteristic headache in the temporal area, jaw or tongue claudication, apathy, fatigue, weight loss. The incidence of ocular involvement is

A 57-year-old Japanese woman with well controlled rheumatoid arthritis visited our hospital with a severe bitemporal headache and marked fatigue. Based on the classification criteria by the American College of Rheumatology, she was diagnosed as having giant cell arteritis. Magnetic resonance (MR)

A 62-year-old patient undergoing aortocoronary bypass grafting had giant cell arteritis diagnosed by routine aortic biopsy done at the graft insertion site. This finding led to the tissue diagnosis of temporal arteritis and the institution of steroid therapy. In retrospect, vague symptoms of

We report a case of a 24-year-old Caucasian woman presenting with fatigue, weight loss, a cardiac murmur, anaemia and biochemical markers of inflammation due to Takayasu's arteritis (TA), a vasculitis of the aorta and large vessels that typically affects young women. The rarity of the disease, the

Medical statements from previous epidemiologic studies consider temporal arteritis as extremely rare or absent in Hispanic patients. A probable genetic protective condition was proposed as an explanation for this. We performed a descriptive observational, retrospective, comparable and not randomized

One case of giant-cell arteritis involving the female genital tract of a post-menopausal woman is reported. The patient was a 75 year-old female, who presented anemia, fatigue, weight loss and a palpable abdominal mass. A hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy proved multiple uterine

Temporal arteritis is a form of vasculitis that involves the large- and medium-diameter arteries and leads to progressive headache. Symptoms may be accompanied by vision disorder, subfebrile temperature, fatigue, lack of appetite, weight loss, sweating, and joint pains. While cortisone therapy

Three cases of giant cell arteritis involving the female genital tract of postmenopausal women are reported. The patients were 80, 64, and 57 years of age and presented with fatigue and anemia, fatigue and an abdominal mass, and fever and weight loss, respectively. Two of the patients had palpable

A 51-year-old white woman with extreme fatigue, fever episodes, weight loss, leucocytosis and increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate showed diffuse high uptake of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose in the entire aortic wall, which is characteristic of giant cell large-vessel arteritis, such as Takayasu

In a prospective study, 68 hospitalized patients were diagnosed as having giant cell arteritis. Temporal artery biopsy was performed in all patients and showed histologic evidence of arteritis in 42 (62%). Twenty-six patients had a negative biopsy but met the clinical criteria for the diagnosis.

Temporal arteritis is a chronic vasculitis of medium and large-size vessels and involves particularly extracranial branches of the aortic arch arteries. Authors report the case of a 73-year-old woman who presented to the hospital after looking for medical counselling three times because of

Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a large vessel vasculitis that involves the aorta, its major branches and pulmonary arteries. Diagnosis of TA during childhood remains challenging due to the non-specific symptoms. We report a four-year-old girl presenting with fever, fatigue, weight loss, and elbow pain

Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is characterized by a chronic inflammatory arteriopathy with unknown etiology affecting large vessels. As TA occurs mostly in young females, elderly males with this disease may be under-diagnosed. A 65-year-old Chinese male with a 6-week history of fever, fatigue, low

Acute, severe aortic regurgitation due to dilatation of the aortic root was studied in a 16-year-old Japanese female with Takayasu's arteritis. The patient was admitted because of acute pulmonary edema followed by systemic illness characterized by fever, anorexia, and general fatigue. The

Giant cell arteritis should not be a diagnosis of exclusion, an afterthought, or a last thought. There is urgency to establishing this diagnosis and initiating therapy. All practitioners who treat adults will be confronted with these patients. Some will have classic presentations, some will have