RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Successful treatment of dissecting aortic aneurysm due to giant cell arteritis.
JF Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
JO Ann Rheum Dis
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and European League Against Rheumatism
SP 507
OP 508
DO 10.1136/ard.40.5.507
VO 40
IS 5
A1 R S Salisbury
A1 B L Hazleman
YR 1981
UL http://ard.bmj.com/content/40/5/507.abstract
AB A 72-year-old women with polymyalgia rheumatica clinically controlled on maintenance steroid therapy presented with symptoms of chest pain and numbness in the right arm. A diagnosis of dissecting aortic aneurysm was confirmed at thoracotomy and the aorta was successfully resected. Histology revealed active giant cell aortitis. We suggest that a normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate in patients with treated temporal arteritis does not preclude large vessel involvement.