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Abdominal Pain in a Patient With Giant Cell Arteritis

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a large vessel vasculitis seen in the elderly. It is primarily treated with corticosteroids, which are known to have a multitude of adverse effects, including predisposition to infection and intestinal diverticular perforation. We describe a unique case of a GCA patient...

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Autores principales: Sundararajan, Tharani, Chauhan, Krati
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9107380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35582553
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24149