[Horton's disease in the course of chronic hepatitis C]
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L Védrine1, P Debourdeau, F Romand
1Service de Médecine interne, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Percy, Clamart.
Background:
Vascularitis is a well-known extrahepatic manifestation of chronic hepatitis C. Mixed cryoglobulinemia is the most common form. To our knowledge, the present case is the first report associating chronic hepatitis C and temporal arteritis.
Case Report:
A 56-year-old man with chronic hepatitis C in the precirrhogenic phase presented with fever and weight loss. The patient complained of pain of the scapular and pelvic girdles and headache and physical examination revealed claudication of the jaw and abolition of the upper limb pulses. Biopsy of the temporal artery confirmed the diagnosis of Horton's disease. The patient also had bilateral stenosis of the sub-clavian arteries.
Discussion:
This observation of Horton's disease involving large vessels in a patient with chronic hepatitis C suggests that an infectious factor might trigger vascularitis.
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