Angiology
Reports outline angiology study results from University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine
Published in Hematology Week, March 9th, 2009
Researchers detail in 'High incidence of severe ischaemic complications in patients with giant cell arteritis irrespective of platelet count and size, and platelet inhibition,' new data in angiology. "Vision loss and ischaemic stroke are feared complications in GCA. We investigated how platelet count and size and platelet inhibition with ASA relate to ischaemic complications in patients with GCA," researchers in Basel, Switzerland report.
"Charts of patients with GCA were retrospectively analysed. Jaw claudication, amaurosis fugax, blurred vision, ischaemic stroke and permanent visual loss were classified as 'ischaemic events'; ischaemic stroke and permanent visual loss...
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