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Involvement of the Aorta in GCA

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Giant cell arteritis involving aorta, can be a lethal disease and it is often manifested in a dramatic way in the elderly: by dissection or rupture of aorta. Early diagnostics, correct treatment and life-long checks of patients in whom GCA was diagnosed can prevent them from development of such a severe complication as aortic aneurysm. That is why it is necessary to actively seek aneurysms in all GCA patients - make regular duplex ultrasonography examinations, CT or MR examinations if possible, too. Patients with diagnosed GCA shall be carefully and properly treated, since in most of the patients in which aortal dissection developed the treatment was not adequate.

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  1. 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Viera Štvrtinová M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Pathological Anatomy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Svetoslav Štvrtina

  3. National Institute of Rheumatic Diseases, Piešťany, Slovakia

    Jozef Rovenský M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P.

  4. Department of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Jozef Rovenský M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P.

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  1. Department of Rheumatology, National Institute of Rheumatic Diseases, Piešťany, Slovakia

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  2. 2nd Department of Medicine, State Hospital of Stockerau, Stockerau, Austria

    Burkhard Leeb

  3. 2nd Internal Clinic Medical Faculty, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Viera Štvrtinová

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Štvrtinová, V., Štvrtina, S., Rovenský, J. (2017). Involvement of the Aorta in GCA. In: Rovenský, J., Leeb, B., Štvrtinová, V., Imrich, R. (eds) Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52222-7_11

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