Case Reports
28 March 2013
Vol. 65 No. 1 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2013.36

Giant cell arteritis associated with chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection

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Giant cell arteritis (GCA), Epstein Barr virus (EBV), chronic active EBV infection (CAEBV-infection).
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A. Giardina
Dipartimento Biomedico di Medicina Interna e Specialistica, Sezione di Reumatologia, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
A. Rizzo
Unità Operativa di Anatomia Patologica, Ospedali Riuniti, Villa Sofia-Cervello, Palermo, Italy.
A. Ferrante
Dipartimento Biomedico di Medicina Interna e Specialistica, Sezione di Reumatologia, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
G. Capra
Dipartimento di Scienze per la Promozione della Salute, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
G. Triolo
giovanni.triolo@unipa.it
Dipartimento Biomedico di Medicina Interna e Specialistica, Sezione di Reumatologia, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
F. Ciccia
Dipartimento Biomedico di Medicina Interna e Specialistica, Sezione di Reumatologia, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
Giant cell arteritis is an inflammatory vasculopathy that preferentially affects medium-sized and large arteries. A viral cause has been suspected but not confirmed in polymyalgia rheumatica and giant-cell arteritis. We report the case of a 81-year-old female who suffered from chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection and developed giant cell temporal arteritis.

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Giant cell arteritis associated with chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection. (2013). Reumatismo, 65(1), 36-39. https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2013.36

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