A case of giant cell arteritis with massive pericardial effusion

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the medium and large blood vessels. The early symptoms of this disease are nonspecific, and pericardial effusion is a rare manifestation of GCA. Recently, we investigated a case of GCA in which massive pericardial effusion was the initi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Heart and vessels 2011-09, Vol.26 (5), p.562-564
Hauptverfasser:	Matsue, Yuya, Ohno, Masakazu, Nagahori, Wataru, Suzuki, Makoto, Matsumura, Akihiko, Hashimoto, Yuji
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering Blood vessels Body fluids Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Case management Case Report Echocardiography Female Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 Giant Cell Arteritis - complications Giant Cell Arteritis - diagnosis Giant Cell Arteritis - drug therapy Heart Humans Immunosuppressive Agents - therapeutic use Inflammatory diseases Medicine Medicine & Public Health Methylprednisolone - therapeutic use Multimodal Imaging Pericardial Effusion - diagnosis Pericardial Effusion - etiology Positron-Emission Tomography Radiopharmaceuticals Tomography Tomography, X-Ray Computed Treatment Outcome Vascular Surgery
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Zusammenfassung:	Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the medium and large blood vessels. The early symptoms of this disease are nonspecific, and pericardial effusion is a rare manifestation of GCA. Recently, we investigated a case of GCA in which massive pericardial effusion was the initial symptom, and active aortitis was observed on positron emission tomography with fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose. These observations indicated that pericardial effusion could occur in patients with GCA.
ISSN:	0910-8327 1615-2573
DOI:	10.1007/s00380-010-0101-5