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Query: UMLS:C0039483 (
giant cell arteritis
)
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Giant cell arteritis
predominantly affects cranial arteries and rarely involves other sites. We report a patient who presented with small
bowel obstruction
because of infarction from mesenteric
giant cell arteritis
. She had an unusual cause of her obstruction and a rare manifestation of
giant cell arteritis
. In spite of aggressive therapy with steroids, she died a month later because of multiple complications. We discuss the diagnosis and management of small
bowel obstruction
and differential diagnosis of vasculitis of the gastrointestinal tract. We were able to find 11 cases of bowel involvement with
giant cell arteritis
in the English literature. This case report illustrates that
giant cell arteritis
can be a cause of small
bowel obstruction
and bowel infarction. In the proper clinical setting, vasculitides need to be considered early in the differential diagnosis when therapy may be most effective.
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PMID:Giant cell arteritis presenting as small bowel infarction. 1735 55
