Document Type : Case reports

Authors

• Mohammad Reza Motamed ¹
• Reza Mollahoseini ¹
• S. Ahmad Tahami ²
• Massod Mehrpoor ¹
• Shahla Chaichian ³
• Meisam Akhlaghdoust ⁴
• Valioallah Hassani ⁵
• Katayoun Gohari Moghaddam ⁶

¹ Associate Professor of Neurology, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Firoozgar Hospital, Tehran, Iran

² Associate Professor of Neurology, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Pars Hospital, Tehran, Iran

³ Minimally Invasive Techniques Research Center in Women, Tehran Medical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Pars Advanced & Minimally Invasive Manners Research Center, Pars Hospital, Tehran, Iran

⁵ Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Rasoul-Akram Medical Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁶ Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: Temporal arteritis (TA) is a chronic inflammatory vasculitis involving medium and large arteries, which mostly occurs after the age of 50 and involves one side of the body.
Case Presentation: We present a 40-year-old male patient with simultaneous bilateral temporal arteritis along with a headache, mild fever, palpation of temporal arteries and anemia who responded to 1mg/kg oral daily prednisone for threemonths. This patient was referred to the Pars Hospital in Tehran, Iran on March 2016.
Conclusions: Temporal arteritis should be kept in mind as an important curable differential diagnosis, not only in ages above 50, but also in lower ages and should be evaluated in both sides.

Keywords

• Bilateral Temporal Arteritis
• Giant Cell Arteritis
• Young Patient