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ACUTE LINGUAL ISCHAEMIA COMPLICATING TEMPORAL ARTERITIS
Author(s) -
Dare B.,
Byrne E.,
Robertson A.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1981.tb135785.x
Subject(s) - arteritis , medicine , gangrene , claudication , presentation (obstetrics) , tongue , ischemia , surgery , cardiology , vascular disease , pathology , arterial disease
We report the case of a patient with extensive extracranial arteritis in whom intermittent claudication of the tongue was followed by incipient gangrene and in whom response to steroid and anticoagulant therapy was rapid. The importance of recognizing this unusual presentation of temporal arteritis and instituting therapy early is emphasized.