Heard of a case where half the tongue infarcted due to lingual artery
involvement.
I would have thought it plausible
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Subject: Re: Temporal arteritis
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Saul Galloway wrote:
> ...occasional swollen tongue
How reliably predictive is that of TA? I don't believe I've seen a swollen
tongue that was TA, or a TA with a swollen tongue.
Yet.
> inflammatory markers are suitably sky high is the consensus to simply
> treat without biopsy? I'm thinking if ESR/CRP is just moderately
> elevated I'm still tempted to treat with prolonged steroid
Clinical trumps lab.
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