| 21. | Causing factors include atherosclerosis, syphilis, Kawasaki disease, and Takayasu's arteritis, etc.
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| 22. | The age at onset helps to differentiate Takayasu's arteritis from other types of large vessel vasculitis.
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| 23. | Immunosuppressive pulse therapy, such as with cyclophosphamide, has also demonstrated relief of symptoms associated with arteritis.
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| 24. | This is caused by insufficiency of the arteries supplying the jaw muscles, associated with giant cell arteritis.
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| 25. | Giant-cell arteritis can involve branches of the aorta as well, leading to an aortic aneurysm or dissection.
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| 26. | Some individuals with Takayasu's arteritis may present with only late vascular changes, without a preceding systemic illness.
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| 27. | Ultrasonography is an ideal method of diagnosing patients in early stages of arteritis when inflammation in the vessel walls occurs.
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| 28. | Can the inflammation of the main arteries caused by arteritis create an incorrect reading on the lab test for cholesterol?
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| 29. | The results from the study were that MRI and FDG-PET were unreliable techniques due to giant cell arteritis.
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| 30. | He would have been about sixty-four, and suffering from temporal arteritis, when the painting was begun.
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