An Unusual Presentation of Horton's Disease

Abstract

Ghazza Ahmed, El baroudi Taieb, Lhousseine Ait lhaj and Kriet Mohamed

Horton’s disease or temporal giganto cellular arteritis is an inflammatory disease of the vessels, particularly affecting older female. We report the case of a 50-year-old patient with a classic clinical picture of anterior arteritic optic neuropathy with ischemia of the optic nerve, with a horizontal level and hypo-choroidal perfusion of the corresponding territory. The peculiarity in this patient is the negativity of the biological assessment and biopsy of the temporal artery.

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