Case of Clinical Mimicry: Atherosclerosis Masquerading as Giant Cell Arteritis

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Title Case of Clinical Mimicry: Atherosclerosis Masquerading as Giant Cell Arteritis
Creator Ryan Mason, MD, PhD; Trishal Jeeva-Patel, MD; Daniel Mandell, MD, PhD; Patrick Shannon, MD; Edward A. Margolin, MD
Affiliation Departments of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences (RM, TJ-P, EAM), Medical Imaging (DM), and Laboratory Medicine (PS), Uni- versity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; and Division of Neurology (EAM), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Abstract We describe a case of an elderly man with severe systemic atherosclerosis that affected internal and external carotid arteries whose clinical presentation mimicked that of giant cell arteritis (GCA) reminding us that systemic atherosclerosis should be on a differential diagnosis of patients presenting with a clinical picture of GCA.
Subject GCA; Atherosclerosis
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Date 2022-03
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Publication Type Journal Article
Source Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, March 2022, Volume 42, Issue 1
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6773s4p
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