Fatal Foam Cell Arteritis of the Brain After Irradiation for Hodgkin's Disease: Angiography and Pathology • A case of foam cell arteritis of the brain following irradiation of the neighboring structures for Hodgkin's disease is described. A differential diagnosis of the unique angiographical findings is presented. The etiology of foam cell arteritis restricted to the brain is considered. It is ...

Large vessel vasculitides, such as Takayasu arteritis and giant cell arteritis, affect vital arteries and cause clinical complications by either luminal occlusion or vessel wall destruction. Inflammatory infiltrates, often with granulomatous arrangements, are distributed as a panarteritis throughout all of the artery's wall layers or cluster in the adventitia as a perivasculitis. Factors determ...

Thirty consecutive patients with severe scleritis or episcleritis were admitted as in-patients to the Medical Ophthalmology Unit and assessed for systemic disease. There were seventeen women and thirteen men. The mean age was 53 with a median of 57 (range 23-83). Eighteen of the patients had scleritis: eleven of these had evidence of connective tissue disease and three of them had temporal art...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to develop a scoring system with colour Doppler ultrasound (CDUS) in patients with Takayasu's arteritis, to correlate the CDUS score with the Indian Takayasu's Activity Score (ITAS) and to assess the degree of agreement between CDUS and angiogram in the diagnosis of Takayasu's arteritis. METHODS Nineteen angiographically confirmed Takayasu's arteri...

This article describes the case of a 68-year-old patient suffering from giant cell arteritis (also known as Horton's arteritis or temporal arteritis). The patient came to our attention due to a large and sudden visual loss caused by the occlusion of major retinal arteries. The patient had neuralgic pain in the face. The next day, for a thorough examination, the patient went to the day hospital ...

Autoimmune hepatitis and hepatic arteritis SIR, The presence of hepatic arteritis is a common finding in the hepatic biopsies of patients with PAN. Nevertheless, its impact on other collagen-vascular diseases (CVDs) is much lower. In an extensive pathological series of 120 autopsies and 40 hepatic in vivo biopsies taken from patients with a history of CVD, Matsumoto found signs of liver arterit...

background & aim: takayasu’s arteritis is a rare, chronic vasculitis, affecting women of reproductive age. with disease progression, evidence of vascular involvement and insufficiency becomes clinically apparent due to the narrowing or occlusion of the proximal or distal branches of the aorta. therefore, pregnancy-related complications, such as superimposed preeclampsia, renal failure, and cong...

To explore the role of adhesion molecules in mediating mononuclear cell localisation, development of the granulomatous reaction, and cell mediated damage to the arterial wall in giant cell arteritis, 17 temporal artery biopsy specimens were examined. Eleven showed the histological features of giant cell arteritis and six showed no evidence of arteritis. All were examined for the expression of L...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the elastic properties of the ascending aorta in untreated patients with giant cell arteritis compared with age and sex matched normal controls. METHODS Distensibility of the ascending aorta and aortic strain were measured in 22 patients with a recent diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (documented by a positive temporal artery biopsy) before initiation corticosteroid t...

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