Giant Cell Arteritis in an Elderly Female With Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Authors

Ashwin Parchani
Ashish Baweja
Harnoor Singh
Yatharth Malik
Vinod Gupta
Minakshi Dhar
Monika Pathania

Publication Date

4-1-2023

Journal

Cureus

Abstract

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a type of systemic vasculitis that primarily affects people over the age of 50 and affects the medium to large arteries. GCA's clinical manifestations can be varied and non-specific, similar to those observed in atherosclerosis. Here, the authors present a case of an elderly woman with pulmonary tuberculosis with GCA masquerading as atherosclerosis.

Keywords

atherosclerosis, giant cell arteritis, large vessel vasculitis, polymyalgia rheumatica, tuberculosis