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Apr 3, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
My summary of Prof Cornelia Weyand’s lecture on #GCA pathogenesis at @Vasculitis2022 (follow their account to see the slides themselves, but here’s what I took away)

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Four phases of #GCA pathogenesis with “checkpoints” between each
•Genetic risk, environmental exposure
•Loss of self tolerance
•Loss of tissue tolerance
•Arteritis

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