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Endovascular treatment of critical lower limb ischemia caused by giant cell arteritis

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a well-known cause of cranial vasculitis often presenting with headache and jaw claudication. Here we report the case of a woman suffering GCA who presented with critical lower limb ischemia. Despite best medical therapy, she developed progressive calf claudication and...

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Autores principales: McLachlan, Rohan H.P., Lennox, Andrew F., Varcoe, Ramon L., Thomas, Shannon D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6322075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30627690
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvscit.2018.09.008
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author McLachlan, Rohan H.P.
Lennox, Andrew F.
Varcoe, Ramon L.
Thomas, Shannon D.
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description Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a well-known cause of cranial vasculitis often presenting with headache and jaw claudication. Here we report the case of a woman suffering GCA who presented with critical lower limb ischemia. Despite best medical therapy, she developed progressive calf claudication and ulceration of the right foot. The findings on workup were highly suggestive of GCA involving the superficial femoral artery. The limb was successfully revascularized with angioplasty and placement of a drug-eluting stent. GCA is an important cause of lower limb ischemia and should be considered in patients without evidence of atherosclerosis. Endovascular intervention is a feasible treatment of critical limb ischemia due to GCA and has been shown to be safe in this case.
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spelling pubmed-63220752019-01-09 Endovascular treatment of critical lower limb ischemia caused by giant cell arteritis McLachlan, Rohan H.P. Lennox, Andrew F. Varcoe, Ramon L. Thomas, Shannon D. J Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech Critical limb ischemia Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a well-known cause of cranial vasculitis often presenting with headache and jaw claudication. Here we report the case of a woman suffering GCA who presented with critical lower limb ischemia. Despite best medical therapy, she developed progressive calf claudication and ulceration of the right foot. The findings on workup were highly suggestive of GCA involving the superficial femoral artery. The limb was successfully revascularized with angioplasty and placement of a drug-eluting stent. GCA is an important cause of lower limb ischemia and should be considered in patients without evidence of atherosclerosis. Endovascular intervention is a feasible treatment of critical limb ischemia due to GCA and has been shown to be safe in this case. Elsevier 2019-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6322075/ /pubmed/30627690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvscit.2018.09.008 Text en Crown Copyright © 2018 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Society for Vascular Surgery. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Critical limb ischemia
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Endovascular treatment of critical lower limb ischemia caused by giant cell arteritis
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title_full Endovascular treatment of critical lower limb ischemia caused by giant cell arteritis
title_fullStr Endovascular treatment of critical lower limb ischemia caused by giant cell arteritis
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title_short Endovascular treatment of critical lower limb ischemia caused by giant cell arteritis
title_sort endovascular treatment of critical lower limb ischemia caused by giant cell arteritis
topic Critical limb ischemia
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6322075/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvscit.2018.09.008
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