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What is your approach to further workup and treatment of abdominal aortitis found on imaging in asymptomatic individuals with elevated inflammatory markers?

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Rheumatology · Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

The differential diagnosis of abdominal aortitis would include giant cell arteritis (we do not know the age of this patient), Takayasu arteritis, IgG4-related disease, Behcet's disease or other systemic rheumatic diseases (RA, SLE, ANCA-associated vasculitis - although less likely since this individ...

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