Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
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Wegahta Tesfaye

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• Case Report
  Giant Cell Arteritis: A Report of Two Cases from Ethiopia
  Author(s): Fisseha Admassu, Yonas Mitku and Wegahta TesfayeFisseha Admassu, Yonas Mitku and Wegahta Tesfaye
  
  Background: Giant cell arteritis is a systemic inflammatory vasculitis of unknown etiology that occurs in older persons and can result in a wide variety of systemic, neurologic, and ophthalmologic complications. Giant cell arteritis is a granulomatous necrotizing arteritis with a predilection for large and medium sized arteries. It is considered to be uncommon in the black race with very few reports from Africa. We report two 73 and 74 year old Ethiopian male patients who presented with sudden onset unilateral visual loss that was associated with severe throbbing headache on the affected eye side. Temporal artery biopsy showed characteristic of Giant cell arteritis. Both of our patients were treated with oral prednisolone with no further severe complications from the disease on subsequent follow up for one year. One of our patients developed steroid related complicati.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9570.1000598

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