Cerebrovascular disease and giant cell arteritis Archives

Abstract Number: 878 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Giant-Cell Arteritis Related Stroke: A Retrospective Multicentre Case-Control Study
Hubert de Boysson¹, Eric Liozon², Delphine Lariviere³, Maxime Samson⁴, Jonathan Boutemy¹, Gwénola Maigné¹, Nicolas Martin Silva¹, Achille Aouba¹, Karim Sacre³ and Boris Bienvenu⁵, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Caen University Hospital, Caen, France, ²Departement of Internal Medicine, Limoges University Hospital, Limoges, France, ³Department of Internal Medicine, Bichat Hospital, Paris, France, ⁴Dijon University Hospital, Dijon, France, ⁵Caen University Hospital, Caen, France
Background/Purpose: Our aim was to describe patients with Giant-Cell Arteritis (GCA)-related stroke and to compare them to a control group of GCA patients without cerebrovascular involvement.…

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