What is your approach to further workup and treatment of abdominal aortitis found on imaging in asymptomatic individuals with elevated inflammatory markers?
Is there a role in temporal artery biopsy?
Answer from: at Community Practice
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...