Aortic involvement in giant cell arteritis

Martínez‐Valle, Fernando; Soláns-Laqué, Roser; Bosch‐Gil, Josep Angel; Vilardell‐Tarrés, Miquel

doi:10.1016/j.autrev.2010.02.014

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“…IRF is associated with HLA-DRB1*03 [23] which also represents a major genetic risk factor for HT, together with HLA-DR4 and -DR5 [15]. In addition, both HT [16,24] and IRF [2][3][4][5]25] cluster with other autoimmune diseases. Histologically, besides the abundance of fibrotic tissue, IRF is characterized by a lympho-plasmocytic infiltrate often organized in nodular structures with germinal centers [1].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Association between idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis and autoimmune thyroiditis: A case–control study

Ceresini

Urban

Corradi

et al. 2015

Autoimmunity Reviews

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Association between idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis and autoimmune thyroiditis: A case–control study

Ceresini

Urban

Corradi

et al. 2015

Autoimmunity Reviews

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“…GCA (Horton's disease) is the most common systemic vasculitis that involves the aorta [47,49,[56][57][58][59][60][61]. GCA primarily, if not exclusively, affects persons older than 50 years of age.…”

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confidence: 99%

Consensus statement on surgical pathology of the aorta from the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology and the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology: I. Inflammatory diseases

Stone¹,

Bruneval²,

Angelini³

et al. 2015

Cardiovascular Pathology

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Inflammatory diseases of the aorta include routine atherosclerosis, aortitis, periaortitis, and atherosclerosis with excessive inflammatory responses, such as inflammatory atherosclerotic aneurysms. The nomenclature and histologic features of these disorders are reviewed and discussed. In addition, diagnostic criteria are provided to distinguish between these disorders in surgical pathology specimens. An initial classification scheme is provided for aortitis and periaortitis based on the pattern of the inflammatory infiltrate: granulomatous/giant cell pattern, lymphoplasmacytic pattern, mixed inflammatory pattern, and the suppurative pattern. These inflammatory patterns are discussed in relation to specific systemic diseases including giant cell arteritis, Takayasu arteritis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's), rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, ankylosing spondylitis, Cogan syndrome, Behçet's disease, relapsing polychondritis, syphilitic aortitis, and bacterial and fungal infections.

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“…However, FDG-PET has revealed that the majority of patients have aortitis in the early phase of the disease [12]. A recent large-scale study of a series of 35 GCA patients showed that FDG-PET indicated vascular uptake in 83% of GCA patients at diagnosis [13].…”

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confidence: 98%

Role of imaging studies in the diagnosis and evaluation of giant cell arteritis in Japanese: report of eight cases

Morinobu¹,

Tsuji²,

Kasagi³

et al. 2011

Mod Rheumatol

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The objective of this study is to clarify the characteristics and imaging results of Japanese patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA). Eight patients with biopsy-proven GCA were enrolled. Their clinical data and imaging results were retrospectively examined from their medical records. All the patients met the criteria for the classification of GCA by the American College of Rheumatology. Although the clinical manifestations are similar to those previously reported, none of the eight patients presented ocular symptoms, and half of them presented jaw claudication. Ultrasonography (US) of temporal artery showed the halo sign in all the patients. Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) was performed in four patients and indicated the presence of aortitis of the patients. US is a quick and noninvasive test to detect inflammation of temporal artery, and FDG-PET is very helpful for early diagnosis of aortitis in GCA. Awareness of the disease and appropriate imaging tests will result in diagnosis of GCA.

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Aortic involvement in giant cell arteritis

Cited by 48 publications

References 36 publications

Association between idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis and autoimmune thyroiditis: A case–control study

Association between idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis and autoimmune thyroiditis: A case–control study

Consensus statement on surgical pathology of the aorta from the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology and the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology: I. Inflammatory diseases

Role of imaging studies in the diagnosis and evaluation of giant cell arteritis in Japanese: report of eight cases

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