An Unusual Presentation of Horton’s Disease

Abstract

Horton’s disease or temporal giganto cellular arteritis is an inflammatory disease of the vessels, particularly affecting older female. We report the case of a 50-year-old patient with a classic clinical picture of anterior arteritic optic neuropathy with ischemia of the optic nerve, with a horizontal level and hypo-choroidal perfusion of the corresponding territory. The peculiarity in this patient is the negativity of the biological assessment and biopsy of the temporal artery