巨细胞动脉炎

定义

动脉炎，常为肉芽肿性，通常影响主动脉和/或其主要分支，好发于颈动脉分支。常常累及颞动脉。起病年龄通常在50岁以上，常与风湿性多肌痛有关。

Arteritis, often granulomatous, usually affecting the aorta and/or its major branches, with a predilection for the branches of the carotid artery. Often involves the temporal artery. Onset usually in patients older than 50 and often associated with polymyalgia rheumatica.

索引词 可用于检索该条目的同义词与别名

• 巨细胞动脉炎
• Horton病
• GCA[巨细胞动脉炎]
• 颞动脉炎
• 颅动脉炎
• 霍顿病
• 巨细胞动脉炎伴风湿性多肌痛
• 巨细胞动脉炎不伴风湿性多肌痛