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Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Giant Cell Arteritis, and Vascular Complications

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Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) may be associated with vascular complications for a number of reasons: 1/the inflammatory nature of the disease itself, 2/strong association with giant cell arteritis (GCA – which has a direct inflammatory effect on arteries and may result in either stenosis or aneurysm within affected segments), 3/side effect of the corticosteroid treatment (including arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia and/or diabetes mellitus). GCA is a systemic granulomatous vasculitis, typically affecting branches of carotid artery mainly temporal artery; however, any other medium or large artery can be affected. This fact complicates diagnosis of the disease. Diagnostic possibilities of GCA are discussed in this chapter.

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

    Viera Štvrtinová M.D., Ph.D. & Denisa Čelovská

  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.

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Štvrtinová, V., Čelovská, D., Štvrtina, S., Rovenský, J. (2017). Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Giant Cell Arteritis, and Vascular Complications. 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_3

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