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Case Reports
. 2007 May 5;137(17-18):265-8.
doi: 10.4414/smw.2007.11863.

Complete recovery of visual acuity in two patients with giant cell arteritis

Gregor P Jaggi  1 , Urs Lüthi, Andreas Forrer, Paul Hasler, Hanspeter E Killer
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Complete recovery of visual acuity in two patients with giant cell arteritis

Gregor P Jaggi et al. Swiss Med Wkly. .
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Abstract

Visual recovery in GCA patients is rare even when treated with HDMP. Treatment is therefore believed to be effective mainly in saving the unaffected eye. We report on two cases with biopsy-proven GCA in which complete recovery of VA occurred under intravenous HDMP.

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