Giant cell arteritis with vertebral artery involvement-baseline characteristics and follow-up of a monocentric patient cohort.

ABSTRACT: Vertebral artery (VA) involvement in giant cell arteritis (GCA) has rarely been reported. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence, patients' characteristics, and immunotherapies used in patients with GCA and VA involvement at diagnosis and 1 year follow-up, retrospectively including patients being diagnosed between January 2011 and March 2021 in our department. Clinical features, laboratory data, VA imaging, immunotherapy, and 1 year follow-up data were analyzed. Baseline characteristics were compared to GCA patients without VA involvement. Among all 77 cases with GCA, 29 patients (37.7%) had VA involvement, as diagnosed by imaging and/or clinical signs and symptoms. Gender distribution and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) were significantly different in the groups with and without VA invo

SUBMITTER: Prunte MKR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10331602 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature