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Giant cell arteritis (GCA), also called temporal arteritis, is an inflammatory autoimmune disease of large blood vessels. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] Symptoms may include headache , pain over the temples, flu-like symptoms , double vision , and difficulty opening the mouth. [ 3 ]
The complications of diabetes can dramatically impair quality of life and cause long-lasting disability. Overall, complications are far less common and less severe in people with well-controlled blood sugar levels. [3] [4] [5] Some non-modifiable risk factors such as age at diabetes onset, type of diabetes, gender, and genetics may influence risk.
Temporal arteritis is an inflammatory disease of medium-sized blood vessels that happens especially with advancing age. AAION occurs in about 15-20 percent of patients with temporal arteritis. Damage to the blood vessels supplying the optic nerves leads to insufficient blood supply ( ischemia ) to the nerve and subsequent optic nerve fiber death.
This form of ischemic optic neuropathy is generally categorized as two types: arteritic AION (or AAION), in which the loss of vision is the result of an inflammatory disease of arteries in the head called temporal arteritis, and non-arteritic AION (abbreviated as NAION, NAAION, [1] or sometimes simply as AION), which is due to non-inflammatory ...
Temporal arteritis, the second type of giant cell arteritis, is also a chronic, inflammatory disease involving mid- to large-sized arteries. [8] Temporal arteritis has a higher incidence in people of Scandinavian descent. [8] However, the incidence rate differs based on population, region and races. [8] Temporal arteritis is not uncommon in ...
Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a large-vessel, idiopathic, granulomatous arteritis that primarily affects the aorta, significant branches of it, and (less frequently) the pulmonary arteries. [6] The disease's symptoms can range from catastrophic neurological impairment to an asymptomatic condition brought on by impalpable pulses or bruits . [ 7 ]
Obliterating arteritis: Obliterating endarteritis of the arteries of the brain, causing destruction and deformation: Causes: it occurs with chronic inflammation and it is a specific character of chronic inflammation
Arteriosclerosis is any hardening (and loss of elasticity) of medium or large arteries (from the Greek arteria, meaning artery, and sclerosis, meaning hardening) Atherosclerosis is a hardening of an artery specifically due to an atheromatous plaque. The term atherogenic is used for substances or processes that cause atherosclerosis.