Vasculitides are a broad group of diseases that can involve any kind of vessel in any organ. These can be classified according to the size of the affected vessels. The most used classification categorizes them in small, medium, and large vessel vasculitis. Large vessel vasculitis can be further divided i...
Resumen La inflamación de la aorta (aortitis) es una patologÃa poco frecuente, con etiologÃa infecciosa (pseudoaneurisma micótico, sÃfilis) y no infecciosa (arteritis, aortitis idiopática, espondilitis anquilosante, entre otras) de difÃcil diagnóstico clÃnico y variable pronóstico. Por esa razÃ...
Giant cell arteritis is the most common vasculitis in patients aged over 50 years. We report an 89-year-old woman with significant weight loss and persistent frontal-occipital headaches lasting two months. The neurological examination at admission identified a decrease in visual acuity of the left eye, p...
Large vessel vasculitis and particularly Temporal Arteritis are systemic diseases that may affect the aorta and its major branches, mainly involving extra cranial branches of the carotid artery. We report a 72-year-old man presenting with weight loss, fever and malaise. Positron emission computed tomogra...
