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AUTOIMMUNE THYROID DISEASE AND GIANT CELL ARTERITIS: A REVIEW, CASE REPORT AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY
Author(s) -
NICHOLSON G. C.,
GUTTERIDGE D. H.,
CARROLL W. M.,
ARMSTRONG B. K.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1984.tb03622.x
Subject(s) - medicine , polymyalgia rheumatica , giant cell arteritis , arteritis , disease , graves' disease , epidemiology , dermatology , retrospective cohort study , thyroid , vasculitis , pathology
A 75‐year‐old man with the simultaneous onset of Graves' disease and giant cell arteritis is described. Although there have been few previous reports of simultaneous onset, literature review and a retrospective study of the records of this hospital suggest that the association of Graves' disease and the polymyalgia rheumatica‐giant cell arteritis syndrome is not simple coincidence. The patient's course was complicated by cerebral infarction secondary to either arterial thrombo‐embolism or arteritis.