title: Acute bilateral ischemia of fingers: an unusual complication of temporal arteritis.
abstract: We describe the case of a patient with documented temporal arteritis, who presented two years into her course with acute digital ischemia, presumed secondary to small vessel vasculitis. To our knowledge, this complication of temporal arteritis has not been previously reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, East Tennessee State University, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, Johnson City, TN 37614-0622, USA. warits126@gmail.com
authors.forename: Warit
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jithpratuck
authors.forename: William M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Wason
authors.forename: Yasmin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Elshenawy
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000098:blood supply*; D013700:Giant Cell Arteritis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged