Giant cell arteritis: Its ophthalmic manifestations

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most important medical emergency in ophthalmology, because its most dreaded complication is visual loss, which is preventable if these patients are diagnosed early and treated immediately and aggressively. This is a brief review of GCA, its ophthalmic manifestations...

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Autor principal: Hayreh, Sohan Singh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7933845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33463564
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1681_20
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spelling pubmed-79338452021-03-08 Giant cell arteritis: Its ophthalmic manifestations Hayreh, Sohan Singh Indian J Ophthalmol Review Article Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most important medical emergency in ophthalmology, because its most dreaded complication is visual loss, which is preventable if these patients are diagnosed early and treated immediately and aggressively. This is a brief review of GCA, its ophthalmic manifestations, and how to diagnose and manage them. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-02 2021-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7933845/ /pubmed/33463564 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1681_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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