Acute Stroke due to Vertebral Artery Dissection in Giant Cell Arteritis

Table 1

Comparison of patients’ characteristics.

Age	Gender	Clinical findings	ESR	CRP	Radiological findings	Treatment	Outcome	Reference
85	F	Headache and bitemporal tenderness	40 mm/h	Not tested	Not performed	Prednisolone 60 mg/day switched to 5 mg/day after 4 months	Death 9 months after diagnosis	Sheehan et al. [11]
77	F	Right eye blurry vision, bitemporal headache, and jaw claudication	60 mm/h	5.9	CTA with V2-V3 bilateral vertebral artery dissection	Prednisolone 1 g/day	Death 6 days after diagnosis	Proft et al. [12]