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To investigate the incidence of biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis in the Native population of Alaska.

..In temporal arteries affected by giant cell arteritis, DCs are highly enriched and activated and have matured into fully differentiated cells producing the chemokines,..

..Pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory T cells regulate master pathogenic pathways, providing a framework for novel immunotherapeutic strategies...

..were also observed in several unrelated Blau syndrome families, some of whose phenotypes included large-vessel arteritis and cranial neuropathy...

We have established an animal model of coronary arteritis which is histopathologically similar to that observed in cases of Kawasaki disease (KD), is a well-known childhood vasculitis syndrome...

Involvement of the pulmonary arteries is common in systemic Takayasu's arteritis, but pulmonary arteritis alone is very rare...

..We analyzed differences in the production of cytokines involved in the occurrence of coronary arteritis among mouse strains, C3H/HeN, C57BL/6, DBA/2 and CBA/J that were injected with CAWS at 4 mg/mouse for 5 ..

..To review recent studies on the immune-mediated pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysms, opening a wide field for possible new therapeutic approaches...

..Lactobacillus casei cell wall extract-induced coronary arteritis in mice mirrors KD in children. Here, we report that responses to L...

..05-0.0001). Crohn's disease activity was positively correlated with the degree of obliterative arteritis. Granulomatous vasculitis was found exclusively in Crohn's disease (10 cases; 43.5%)...

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..Adventitial reactions are common in atherosclerosis as well as arteritis. Experimental hypercholesterolemia in pigs and non-human primates stimulates the accumulation of inflammatory ..

..It seems likely that, in KD at least, retroviruses may have an etiological role either by directly infecting endothelial cells or indirectly via T-cells, antibody, or immune complex formation...

Carotid artery stenting (CAS) for high-risk anatomic lesions is accepted practice. Neck irradiation and radiotherapy-induced arteritis are common indications. The clinical outcomes of CAS for radiation arteritis have been poorly defined.

..Prior CT and magnetic resonance imaging were not helpful in providing a clinical diagnosis. The diagnosis was Horton's arteritis, and the patient responded well to high-dose steroids.

..The first patient is a 67-yr-old male presenting with a massive large-vessel arteritis as primary manifestation of refractory anemia with excess of blasts type 1 (RAEB-1)...

OBJECTIVE: To present a case of Pythium insidiosum arteritis and review reported cases of human pythiosis...

To clarify whether the cardiac sequelae of Kawasaki disease (KD), postcoronary arteritis lesions can become a risk factor for atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries, six autopsy cases of patients older than 15 years of age with ..

MRL/Mp mice bearing the lymphoproliferation gene (lpr) spontaneously develop systemic granulomatous arteritis coincident with glomerulonephritis (GNP)...

..We examined the histopathological features of systemic vasculitis caused in mice by injection of a Candida albicans ( C. albicans) extract and investigated the principal genetic roles in the development of vasculitis...

..such as fever, mucositis, cervical lymphoadenopathy and skin rash, associated with coronary aneurysms or arteritis are diagnostic...

..To determine if magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the optic nerves obtained during the acute phase can distinguish patients with optic neuritis (ON) from those with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION)...

..Large vessel vasculitides such as giant cell arteritis and Takayasu arteritis are other examples that may potentially extend the field of (18)FDG PET indications...

..05. NAION is characterised by decreased ON and chiasmatic size. The low MTR of the chiasm and brain associated with increased areas of WMH may be suggestive of demyelination and axonal damage due to generalised cerebral vascular disease...

..agent etanercept, as well as TNFRI knockout mice, are resistant to development of both coronary arteritis and coronary aneurysm formation...

..study, we use an animal model of Kawasaki disease, Lactobacillus casei cell wall extract (LCWE)-induced coronary arteritis, to examine the role of IFN-gamma in the development of coronary artery lesions...

..We suggest that coronary vasculitis is a rare complication of meningococcal septicemia that should be included in the list of conditions known to elicit a Kawasaki-like inflammatory response...

..No significant vasculitis was found in any other organs. Based on the findings this seems to be the second reported case of isolated eosinophilic coronary periarteritis...

..CONCLUSION: Unstable plaques exhibit chronic pan-arteritis, accompanied by enlargement, medial thinning, and less fibrosis than in stable lesions, which is compatible with ..

..Incorporation of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in defining the pathogenesis of vasculitis has been particularly useful in diagnosing those small vessel vasculitides that are life threatening and need immediate intervention...

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..These results suggested that carotid haemodynamic parameters such as PI and RI are associated with atherosclerosis and inflammation in hypertensive patients...

A 9-month-old boy presented with chronic arteritis of the aorta and its major branches. The clinical manifestations at onset of his illness were compatible with those of Kawasaki syndrome...

..The physician's recognition of a localized versus systemic vasculitic process is important in terms of making the correct diagnosis, prescribing treatment, and arranging appropriate clinical follow-up...

..There is still great uncertainty in the detection of antiendothelial cell antibodies (AECA). The aim of our study was to compare the results obtained using different methods...

..To evaluate whether tobacco smoking may be a risk factor for development of nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NA-AION)...

..Positron emission tomography (PET) to determine the change in glucose metabolic rate in the visual cortex of patients with NAION versus age-matched controls was performed after 3 months' administration of pentoxifylline...

..To evaluate the association between platelet glycoprotein polymorphisms and the risks of single and second eye involvement with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION)...

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..To evaluate correlations between retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness with visual field (VF) sensitivities in eyes with nonartertic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION)...

..To assess the value of indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) for demonstrating choroidal vascular abnormalities in patients with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION)...

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..To evaluate the pattern of various types of visual field defects and their prevalence at initial examination of nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NA-AION)...

..Intravitreal triamcinolone injection may offer help in limiting the damage in this small group of patients with a relatively short history of visual loss due to NAION...

..To report on the use of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide as treatment for nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION)...

..To investigate systematically the natural history of visual outcome in nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION)...

..To investigate systematically the role of systemic corticosteroid therapy in non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NA-AION)...

..To investigate various aspects of nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NA-AION) in patients with diabetes mellitus and to compare them with those in patients without diabetes mellitus...

..We intended to consider whether NAION at a relatively young age might comprise a separate pathological and diagnostic entity...

..In addition, the window of postoperative susceptibility for delayed ischemic optic neuropathy after cataract extraction is unclear...

..5 mm. CONCLUSIONS: The morphology of this NAION infarct is not consistent with disease of large or small vessels and, more likely, represents a form of compartment syndrome that causes tissue ischemia...

..There is no effective therapy to treat patients acutely or to prevent recurrence. After 6 months of careful follow-up, 57.3% of patients will have no significant change or worsening of their vision in the involved eye...

..The course of nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy is also variable, often sequentially affecting the other eye...

..Acute vasospasm (due to inappropriate reactions to catecholamine or endothelial dysfunction), as well as SMA as a precursor or subtype of fibromuscular dysplasia, are two theories still under discussion...

..CONCLUSIONS: This histopathologic study found that both vulnerable and stable coronary plaques of patients dying of AMI are diffusely infiltrated by inflammatory cells...

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The article presents diagnostic criteria for nonspecific aortic arteritis proposed by K...

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..Intraperitoneal administration of CAWS induces coronary arteritis in various strains of inbred mice...

..ET-1 may be indirectly play a role in SAM by cross-talking and potentiating the activities of other vasoconstrictors such as norepinephrine and by orchestrating its reparative phase...

..involvement type (Group I: normal coronary artery or coronary thrombosis (n = 16); Group II: coronary aneurysm/arteritis (n = 12); Group III: coronary atherosclerosis (n = 22))...

..The results showed that high-dose males developed significantly increased incidences of coronary and renal arteritis over controls in 2 of the 9 studies (indium phosphide and cobalt sulfate heptahydrate), while marginal increases ..

We have established a mouse model which shows the symptoms of coronary arteritis after consecutive injections of CAWS, which is released from Candida albicans...

..Both drugs produced arteritis in small- and medium-sized coronary arteries after single or multiple doses, some of which were at or below the ..

..Chlamydia pneumoniae is directly involved in the development of adventitial and plaque inflammation (pan-arteritis), leading to plaque rupture. Adventitial O(2)(-) may also play an extensive role in the control of vascular tone...

..Although cardiac involvement is not infrequent as a manifestation of Behcet's disease, coronary arteritis is very rarely reported...

..This case report suggested that IgG4-related disease can occur in the vascular system and manifest as an aneurysm or a periarterial mass lesion...

We present a rare case of adult Still's disease with cardiac involvement (myocarditis and coronary arteritis)...

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..arterial diseases of the dog relevant to safety assessment studies of drugs are the extramural coronary arteritis of Hartman, intramural coronary arteriosclerosis (with amyloid deposition) occurring in older dogs with cardiac ..

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an inflammatory vasculopathy that involves large- and medium-sized arteries and can cause vision loss, stroke and aneurysms. GCA occurs in people aged >50 years and is more common in women...

Opinions regarding diagnostic and treatment issues in giant cell arteritis (GCA) vary widely, yet few controlled trials exist to address these issues...

We conducted this retrospective study to determine the prevalence of giant cell arteritis (GCA) in patients exhibiting nonatherosclerotic upper and/or lower extremity arterial involvement and to evaluate the clinical features and long-..

..tomography have been increasingly studied and, in part, introduced in clinical practice to diagnose large-vessel vasculitides, such as temporal arteritis, Takayasu arteritis, large-vessel giant cell arteritis, and isolated aortitis.

Colour Doppler sonography (CDS) is an established technique in the diagnosis of giant-cell (temporal) arteritis (GCA)...

..were fibromuscular dysplasia (n = 48), atherosclerosis (n = 28), dissection (n = 7), aortic coarctation (n = 5), arteritis (n = 3), giant cell arteritis (n = 1), Marfan's syndrome (n = 1), and trauma (n = 1)...

In Europe giant cell arteritis (GCA) is more common in Scandinavian countries than in southern regions. Epidemiological studies on GCA in other more distant countries have indicated a progressive increase in incidence...

Giant cell (temporal) arteritis (GCA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) are different but overlapping diseases of unknown etiology affecting the elderly...

The 5(-terminal leader sequence of the equine arteritis virus (EAV) genome contains an open reading frame (ORF) with an AUG codon in a suboptimal context for initiation of protein synthesis...

To report the incidence, visual symptoms, and ocular signs of occult giant cell arteritis in patients who initially presented with visual symptoms and ocular signs of giant cell arteritis...

Giant cell aortitis is a rare cause of ascending aortic aneurysm disease despite giant cell arteritis being a common cause of vasculitis...

Recently described macular arteritis presents as asymptomatic hyperpigmented macules, runs a chronic, indolent course, and shows lymphocytic arteritis at various stages of evolution ranging from fibrinoid necrosis to endarteritis ..

..PMR) and strongly expressed in granulomatous inflammatory infiltrate of the temporal artery in giant cell arteritis (GCA). ICAM-1 genes may contribute to the inflammatory PMR/GCA processes...

..arteries, it seems that many cases that are histopathologically proven to be deep dermal or subcutaneous arteritis-including cases documented in numerous dermatology, rheumatology, and dermatopathology-related journals as ..

Evidence of a dark halo on ultrasonography has been considered a specific sign of giant-cell arteritis and may replace temporal artery biopsy for the diagnosis of giant-cell arteritis in patients with typical clinical manifestations.

To date, only a few series have analyzed the long-term outcome of giant cell arteritis (GCA) patients with aortic involvement, which prompted us to conduct the current retrospective study...

Equine arteritis virus (EAV) is an enveloped, positive-stranded RNA virus belonging to the family Arteriviridae of the order NIDOVIRALES: Six transmembrane proteins have been identified in EAV particles: the nonglycosylated membrane ..

To investigate the involvement of arteries other than the temporal arteries in active giant cell arteritis using color Doppler sonography.

..be readily diagnosed by readily available/noninvasive tests, for example, adult Still's disease and temporal arteritis (TA)...

..MBL) gene causing low serum concentrations of MBL and/or polymorphisms of HLA-DRB1 are associated with increased susceptibility to polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) or particular clinical phenotypes of PMR/GCA.

..angiography (CTA) to assess the prevalence of abdominal aortic lesions that suggested abdominal aortitis at diagnosis of giant-cell or temporal arteritis (GCA). We also evaluated the contribution of these 2 techniques to diagnosis.

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a sight-threatening systemic vasculitis with an immune-mediated pathogenesis...

..C pneumoniae has been compellingly associated with atherosclerosis, inflammatory arthritis, and temporal arteritis, among several others...

..pneumoniae has been compellingly associated with atherosclerosis, inflammatory arthritis, and temporal arteritis, among several others...

..pneumoniae has been compellingly associated with atherosclerosis, inflammatory arthritis, and temporal arteritis, among several others...

DESCRIPTION (from abstract): Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an ophthalmic emergency with a high risk for permanent vision loss...

..of innate immune signaling via Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in inflammatory diseases such as atherosclerosis and arteritis. We reported that injection of cell wall extracts from L...

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an immune-mediated vasculopathy with granulomatous inflammation of the arterial wall leading to lumenal obstruction and ischemia...

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an immune-mediated vasculopathy with granulomatous inflammation of the arterial wall leading to lumenal obstruction and ischemia...

..heart disease in children, both the etiology and molecular mechanisms leading to the associated coronary arteritis remain unknown...

..in replication in the aorta and is defective in inducing viral-associated vascular diseases including acute arteritis and atherosclerosis...

We have developed a novel small animal model of virus induced elastic arteritis that will allow us to define fundamental mechanisms of vascular injury and the role of virus infection and the immune system in controlling or promoting ..

..Like murine CMV, y,HV68 causes chronic vasculitis restricted to the great elastic arteries (elastic arteritis)...

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..Accomplishment of these goals will assist in our understanding of the critical structural features of these GDs that allow the specific functional binding of proteins containing these regions to their receptors. ..

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