Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Disease, Cleveland Clinic, OH 44195, USA.
Cleve Clin J Med. 2011 Apr;78(4):265-70. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.78a.10131.
Giant cell arteritis is the most common form of vasculitis affecting older people, and the diagnosis should be considered in older patients who present with the new onset of headache, visual dysfunction, polymyalgia rheumatica, or systemic inflammatory symptoms. Physicians should be familiar with its variety of clinical presentations and the abnormal laboratory findings associated with it.
巨细胞动脉炎是老年人最常见的血管炎类型，对于出现新发头痛、视觉功能障碍、风湿性多肌痛或全身炎症症状的老年患者，应考虑诊断为巨细胞动脉炎。医生应熟悉其多种临床表现以及与之相关的异常实验室发现。
