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Giant cell arteritis as unusual cause of critical arm ischemia.
Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques 2018 September
Giant cell arteritis is an inflammatory vasculopathy of unknown etiology that typically affects the carotid artery and its branches. Symptomatic involvement of upper extremity arteries is uncommon. We report a case of a 70-year-old woman with polymyalgia rheumatica who presented with critical arm ischemia, constitutional symptoms, and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Urgent revascularization by a carotid-brachial artery bypass was performed. Histopathologic evaluation of a specimen obtained intraoperatively from the occluded axillary artery confirmed the diagnosis, and corticosteroid therapy was initiated. Large-vessel vasculitis should be considered a rare differential diagnosis in occlusive disease of the upper extremity.
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