arteritis

I wonder if giant cell arteritis is actually produced by low fat diets?

Low-carb diet improves lipid profile better than low-fat diet | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

I worried, I fretted, I went to see my gp, and a locum--substitute personnel filling in temporarily, for all my non-UK friends--scared me with a possible diagnosis of temporal arteritis, which my regular gp then negated.

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-- Partial or complete obstruction of arteries (brachial or others) occurs as the result of direct injury to the vessel wall from compression and tension of muscles and resultant arteritis; lodging of emboli; and parasitic invasion of vessel walls causing internal arteritis.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

As judged by lesions of the aorta and iliac arteries in dissecting subjects, the conclusion that arteritis and resultant disorders are of rather frequent occurrence, is logical.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

The cause of arteritis is unknown in many instances, but parasitic invasion and contiguous involvement of vessels in some inflammatory injuries are etiological factors.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

Sclerostomiasis with attendant arteritis, thrombus formation and subsequent lodgement of emboli in the iliac, femoral, or other arteries, causes sufficient obstruction to prevent free circulation of blood, and the characteristic lameness of thrombosis results.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

_ -- In acute arteritis we find swelling along the vessel, loss of elasticity, friability, and thickening of the walls; a roughness and loss of gloss of the inner coat, with the formation of coagula or pus in the vessel.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

This is usually the result of arteritis, and may partly or wholly be impervious to the flow of blood.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

The coats undergo the same changes as in arteritis; clots of blood and lymph plug the inflamed vessel, and, if the inflammatory process continues, these are converted into pus, which ruptures the vessel and produces a deep abscess; or it may be carried away in the circulation and produce metastatic abscess in the lungs or other remote organs.

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

Subacute or chronic arteritis may affect only the outer coat

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877