Takayasu syndrome in Horton's disease
Novikov, P.I.; Krivosheev, O.G.; Aslanidi, I.P.; Mukhortova, O.V.
Klinicheskaia Meditsina 88(3): 70-73
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2149 PMID: 20608071 Document Number: 643108
Problems of diagnosis (including early diagnoses) and treatment of giant cell arteritis the commonest form of vasculitis in subjects above 50 years. An aged woman presenting with rheumatic polymyalgia is described in whom cell arteritis was diagnosed by positron emission tomography. Etiology of this disease and it medicamentous treatment are discussed with reference to the patients' age and concomitant pathologies.