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Cranial and extracranial giant cell arteritis share similar HLA-DRB1 association.
Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Oct 2020
Prieto-Peña Diana, Remuzgo-Martínez Sara, Ocejo-Vinyals Javier Gonzalo, Atienza-Mateo Belén, Muñoz-Jiménez Alejandro, Ortiz-Sanjuán Francisco, Romero-Yuste Susana, Moriano Clara, Galíndez-Agirregoikoa Eva, Miranda-Filloy José A, Blanco Ricardo, Gualillo Oreste, Martín Javier, Castañeda Santos, López-Mejías Raquel, González-Gay Miguel A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether giant cell arteritis (GCA) patients with the typical pattern of cranial ischemic manifestations and those with the extracranial large-vessel-vasculitis (LVV)-GCA phenotype exhibit different HLA-DRB1 association. METHODS: 178 biopsy-proven GCA patients who had cranial ischemic features but no LVV manifestations, 100 patients with LVV-GCA without cranial ischemic manifestations and...
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