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Overview
Symptoms
Patients present with:
- Fever
- Headache
- Tenderness and sensitivity on the scalp
- Jaw claudication (pain in jaw when chewing)
- Reduced visual acuity (blurred vision)
- Acute visual loss (sudden blindness)
The inflammation may affect blood supply to the eye and blurred vision or sudden blindness may occur. In 76% of cases involving the eye, the ophthalmic artery is involved causing anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.[1] Loss of vision in both eyes may occur very abruptly and this disease is therefore a medical emergency.
References
- ↑ Hayreh (April 3, 2003). "Ocular Manifestations of GCA". Retrieved 2007-10-15. Text "publisher University of Iowa Health Care " ignored (help)