Heart involvement in primary systemic vasculitides is important to recognize, because it has
been linked to increased mortality and requires prompt diagnosis and treatment. Almost all …

Temporal arteritis (TA), or giant cell arteritis, is a systemic autoimmune vasculitis affecting
patients over 50-years of age. It can cause rapid, irreversible bilateral vision loss in older …

The vasculitides are a heterogeneous group of disorders, characterized by inflammatory cell
infiltration and necrosis of blood vessels that cause vascular obstruction or aneurysm …

Background Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an inflammatory disease of unknown etiology
affecting adults age> 50 years. GCA (also known as temporal arteritis) is a vasculitis of large …

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic granulomatous vasculitis of unknown aetiology
occurring in the elderly. It affects the cranial branches of the arteries originating from the …

Pericardial effusion in patients with giant cell arteritis has been described in case reports.
The exact prevalence of this manifestation is unknown. The objective of this study was to …

Introduction Heart involvement in vasculitis is rare, but potentially severe. The ascertainment
of cardiac disease in vasculitis is complex and requires an integrated multidisciplinary …

We read with great interest the report by Pugnet, et al describing the case of acute
myocarditis revealing giant cell arteritis (GCA) in an elderly patient1. We describe a new …

Background Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a systemic vasculitis that commonly co-occurs with
polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) in elderly patients. Pericardial disease is an unusual …

We report a patient who developed pericarditis and pericardial tamponade coinciding with
polymyalgia rheumatica onset. Our patient did not show any clinical sign of vasculitis; …