Giant Cell Arteritis in an Elderly Female With Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a type of systemic vasculitis that primarily affects people over the age of 50 and affects the medium to large arteries. GCA's clinical manifestations can be varied and non-specific, similar to those observed in atherosclerosis. Here, the authors present a case of...

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Autores principales: Parchani, Ashwin, Baweja, Ashish, Singh, Harnoor, Malik, Yatharth, Gupta, Vinod, Dhar, Minakshi, Pathania, Monika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10196147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37214024
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37805
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author Parchani, Ashwin
Baweja, Ashish
Singh, Harnoor
Malik, Yatharth
Gupta, Vinod
Dhar, Minakshi
Pathania, Monika
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description Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a type of systemic vasculitis that primarily affects people over the age of 50 and affects the medium to large arteries. GCA's clinical manifestations can be varied and non-specific, similar to those observed in atherosclerosis. Here, the authors present a case of an elderly woman with pulmonary tuberculosis with GCA masquerading as atherosclerosis.
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spelling pubmed-101961472023-05-20 Giant Cell Arteritis in an Elderly Female With Pulmonary Tuberculosis Parchani, Ashwin Baweja, Ashish Singh, Harnoor Malik, Yatharth Gupta, Vinod Dhar, Minakshi Pathania, Monika Cureus Internal Medicine Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a type of systemic vasculitis that primarily affects people over the age of 50 and affects the medium to large arteries. GCA's clinical manifestations can be varied and non-specific, similar to those observed in atherosclerosis. Here, the authors present a case of an elderly woman with pulmonary tuberculosis with GCA masquerading as atherosclerosis. Cureus 2023-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10196147/ /pubmed/37214024 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37805 Text en Copyright © 2023, Parchani et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Parchani, Ashwin
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Giant Cell Arteritis in an Elderly Female With Pulmonary Tuberculosis
title Giant Cell Arteritis in an Elderly Female With Pulmonary Tuberculosis
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title_fullStr Giant Cell Arteritis in an Elderly Female With Pulmonary Tuberculosis
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title_short Giant Cell Arteritis in an Elderly Female With Pulmonary Tuberculosis
title_sort giant cell arteritis in an elderly female with pulmonary tuberculosis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10196147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37214024
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37805
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