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Polymyalgia Rheumatica Linked to Peripheral Artery Disease
Epidemiological and clinical features of giant cell arteritis in Tunisia.
Lack of Association Between STAT4 Gene Polymorphism and Biopsy-proven Giant Cell Arteritis.
CONCLUSION: Our results do not support a major role of the STAT4 rs7574865 gene polymorphism in susceptibility to or clinical manifestations of GCA.
PMID: 19332627 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: J Rheumatol)
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Conclusions:
Patients with PMR appear to have an increased risk of PAD. (Source: Arthritis Research and Therapy)
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Abstract A 60-year-old male who had been treated for polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) with Raynaud’s phenomenon was admitted to our hospital
with acrocyanosis and rapid progressive anemia. Hemolytic anemia with reduction of haptoglobin and cold agglutinin was detected,
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