Temporal Arteritis

Temporal arteritis is the inflammatory disease of blood vessels (most commonly large and medium blood vessels of the head). The name comes from the most frequently involved vessel (temporal artery which branches from the external carotid artery of the neck) and it is also named as giant cell vasculitis, indicating the type of cells infiltrating and damaging the vessels.

The disorder may coexist (in one quarter of cases) with another disorder called polymyalgia rheumatica, which is characterized by sudden onset of pain and stiffness in large joints (pelvis, shoulder) of the body and seen in the elderly. Other diseases related with temporal arteritis are systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arteritis and severe infections.

Temporal arteritis is more common in females and after 50 years of age. Patients present with fever, headache, tenderness and sensitivity on the scalp and recurrent jaw pain evoked especially by chewing. Most importantly, the inflammation may affect blood suply to the structures providing vision, and blurred vision or blindness may occur, accordingly. Palpation of the head reveals sensitive and thick arteries with or without pulsation. Sedimentation rate is very high in most of the patients (may be normal in approximately 20% of cases). The inflammation of the vessel must be demonstrated by removing a small part of the vessel (biopsy) and analysing it for giant cells infiltrating the tissue. Since the vessels are involved in a patchy pattern, there may be unaffected areas on the vessel and the biopsy might have been taken from these parts. So, a negative result does not definitely rule out the diagnosis.

Loss of vision of both eyes may occur very abruptly and this disease is therefore an emergency. Corticosteroids must be started as soon as the diagnosis is suspected (even before the diagnosis is confirmed by biopsy).

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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The disorder may occur alone or with other disorders such as temporal arteritis. (references)
		Several components of the NIH support research on vasculitis and temporal arteritis. (references)
		Treatment for temporal arteritis and its associated symptoms generally includes corticosteroid therapy. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Temporal Arteritis

Modern Translations: Temporal Arteritis

Language		Translations for "temporal arteritis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		arteritis temporalis (Arteritis temporalis). (various references)

Dutch		arteritis temporalis (Arteritis temporalis). (various references)

Finnish		temporaaliarteriitti (Arteritis temporalis), ohimovaltimotulehdus (Arteritis temporalis), Hortonin arteriitti (Arteritis temporalis). (various references)

French		artérite temporale (Arteritis temporalis). (various references)

German		Temporalarteriitis (Arteritis temporalis), Kranialarteriitis (Arteritis temporalis), Arteriitis temporalis (Arteritis temporalis), Arteriitis cranialis (Arteritis temporalis). (various references)

Greek		κροταφική αρτηρίτιδα (Arteritis temporalis). (various references)

Italian		arterite temporale (Arteritis temporalis). (various references)

Pig Latin		emporaltay arteritisay

Portuguese		arterite temporal (Arteritis temporalis). (various references)

Spanish		arteritis temporal (Arteritis temporalis). (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Temporal Arteritis

Anagrams: Temporal Arteritis

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	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-i-l-m-o-p-r-r-r-s-t-t-t"
	-4 letters: polarimetries, temporalities.
	-5 letters: imperatorial, polarimeters, postliterate, proletariats, territorials.
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Alternative Orthography: Temporal Arteritis

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 6D 70 6F 72 61 6C 41 72 74 65 72 69 74 69 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110010 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006D 0070 006F 0072 0061 006C 0041 0072 0074 0065 0072 0069 0074 0069 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Systemic Manifestations of Temporal Arteritis (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression	Frequency per Day
temporal arteritis	185
temporal arteritis symptom	5
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	arteritis temporalis. (various references)
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Temporal Arteritis

Definition: Temporal Arteritis