An Unusual Presentation of Giant Cell Arteritis

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic vasculitis that typically presents with headache, fever and polymyalgia although atypical presentations are known. We present a case of GCA with nonproductive cough and pyrexia of unknown origin emphasizing this atypical nature of presentation. We report a rar...

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Autores principales: Prabhavalkar, Siddhesh, Bogusz, Pawel, Merard, Reena, Gormley, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22811725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/498174
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author Prabhavalkar, Siddhesh
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description Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic vasculitis that typically presents with headache, fever and polymyalgia although atypical presentations are known. We present a case of GCA with nonproductive cough and pyrexia of unknown origin emphasizing this atypical nature of presentation. We report a rare association of GCA with granulomatous hepatitis. We also support the use of PET scanning in diagnosing and monitoring this condition.
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spelling pubmed-33951322012-07-18 An Unusual Presentation of Giant Cell Arteritis Prabhavalkar, Siddhesh Bogusz, Pawel Merard, Reena Gormley, Mark Case Rep Med Case Report Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic vasculitis that typically presents with headache, fever and polymyalgia although atypical presentations are known. We present a case of GCA with nonproductive cough and pyrexia of unknown origin emphasizing this atypical nature of presentation. We report a rare association of GCA with granulomatous hepatitis. We also support the use of PET scanning in diagnosing and monitoring this condition. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3395132/ /pubmed/22811725 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/498174 Text en Copyright © 2012 Siddhesh Prabhavalkar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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