Arteritis, temporal: Also called giant cell arteritis or cranial arteritis, this is a serious disease characterized by inflammation of the walls of the blood vessels (vasculitis).
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Arteritis de células gigantes y polimialgia reumática
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Polyarteritis nodosa
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Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) facts
Polyarteritis nodosa is an autoimmune disease that affects arteries.
Common areas affected include the muscles, joints, intestines (bowels), nerves, kidneys, and skin.
Polyarteritis nodosa is a rare, but potentially life threatening, inflammation of the blood vessels (vasculitis) that damages the walls of the body's small- and medium-sized arteries.
Periarteritis: Overview
A serious blood vessel disease in which small- and medium-sized arteries become swollen and damaged.
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Polyarteritis nodosa is a disease of unknown cause that affects arteries, the blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to organs and tissues. It occurs when certain immune cells attack the affected arteries.
Temporal arteritis causes inflammation inside some of your arteries. This causes large cells to be developed in the wall of these infected arteries, hence its alternative name Giant Cell Arteritis.
Temporal Arteritis or Giant Cell Arteritis is so called because it is a chronic inflammation of the large arteries, typically the temporal arteries which are in the temple region at the sides of the forehead.
Temporal Arteritis disease is one of a group of diseases in which the linings of large- or medium-sized blood vessels become inflamed. The elastic layer of these vessels is attacked by "giant" cells and chemicals produced by the immune system.
Temporal arteritis is inflammation and damage to blood vessels that supply the head area, particularly the large or medium arteries that branch from the neck and supply the temporal area.
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Giant cell arteritis is a condition which causes inflammation on the inside of some arteries (blood vessels).
Temporal Arteritis: Symptoms
Early symptoms of temporal arteritis may resemble flu symptoms, including such signs as fatigue, loss of appetite, and fever.
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a condition which causes inflammation on the inside of some arteries (blood vessels). It is called 'giant cell' because abnormal large cells develop in the wall of the inflamed arteries.
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Giant cell arteritis is inflammation of the arteries that can cause sudden blindness in one or both eyes.
Elderly white females from northern European backgrounds are at increased risk, for reasons unknown.
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Around one in five people with polymyalgia rheumatica go on to develop a more serious condition called giant cell arteritis, which causes inflammation in the body's medium and large arteries, resulting in symptoms such as: ...
What is Polyarteritis Nodosa?
Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a multisystem disease that affects small to medium sized blood vessels. Typically it affects the renal, intestinal, muscular and cardiac circulations.
Symptoms of POLYARTERITIS NODOSA
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The disease is caused by inflammation of some of the arteries in the body. This causes the blood flow in certain areas to be reduced or blocked completely.
polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) - of which giant cell arteritis is the more severe form of the illness.
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Arteritis, cranial: A serious disease characterized by inflammation of the walls of the blood vessels (vasculitis). The age of affected patients is usually over 50.
Polyarteritis. This form of vasculitis affects small and medium blood vessels in many parts of your body, such as your heart, kidneys and intestines.
Wegener's granulomatosis.
Polyarteritis Nodosa
Polyarteritis nodosa (POL-e-ar-ter-I-tis no-DO-suh) can affect many parts of the body. This disorder often affects the kidneys, the digestive tract, the nerves, and the skin.
Cranial arteritis
A vasculitic disorder which presents with head pain and scalp tenderness and a high ESR. Sudden loss of vision may occur due to retinal artery occlusion. Part of the polymyalgia rheumatica disease spectrum.
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Arteritis - Inflammation of the arteries.
Arteriosclerosis - A disease process, commonly called "hardening of the arteries", which includes a variety of conditions that cause artery walls to thicken and lose elasticity.
Polyarteritis nodosa is an autoimmune disease. Your immune system is your bodys defense system. It fights diseases and infections. An autoimmune disease is a condition in which your body's immune system mistakenly attacks your own body.
polyarteritis nodosa group - an inflammatory disease of the arteries.
Wegener vasculitis - A progressive disease that leads to widespread inflammation of all of the organs in the body.
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Common peroneal nerve dysfunction is damage to the peroneal nerve leading to loss of movement or sensation in the foot and leg.
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Temporal arteritis is a condition of inflammation of the arteries. It affects the head, neck, upper body, and arms. The temporal artery is most often affected. It runs over the temple, to the outside of the eye.
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Also known as: giant cell arteritis, aortic arch syndrome, pulseless disease, thickening of wall of aortic arch and thoracic aorta, ...
Giant cell arteritis, also known as temporal arteritis and cranial arteritis, is a disorder that results in swelling of arteries in the head (most often the temporal arteries, which are located on the temples on each side of the head), neck, and arms.
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Temporal arteritis. Temporal arteritis is an inflammation that occurs in the arteries at your temples. With this condition, chewing or talking can cause headaches. The pain usually occurs in people older than age 50.
giant cell arteritis (Also called cranial arteritis, temporal arteritis, or Horton's disease.) - disease causing inflammation of the temporal arteries and other arteries in the head and neck, causing the arteries to narrow, ...
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Takayasu's arteritis. A type of vasculitis that causes inflammation of the arteries
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temporal arteritis
An inflammatory disease affecting the medium and large-sized blood vessels involving the temporal arteries of the head. Also sometimes called "Giant cell Arteritis".
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Another rheumatic disease in which very high sed rates can be seen, sometimes above 100 mm per hour, is a condition called "temporal arteritis" that is often associated with another condition called "polymyalgia rheumatica.
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arteritis, or artery inflammation, in an artery that supplies the brain. This may be due to a condition called temporal arteritis, for example.
stroke from carotid dissection.
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