A new study shows that cranial ultrasound has a greater sensitivity than temporal artery biopsy, and a comparable specificity in the diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis. A new study presented for the ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At the Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology, Lee and Susan Mollan, MBChB, FRCOphth, PhD, debated this ...
A 78-year-old man was referred for an ultrasound of his right eye to evaluate a small choroidal nevus. He also mentioned almost total loss of vision in his left eye over the past several days. His ...
In Avasarala's analysis of more than 700 patients, TAUS was the strongest independent predictor of a correct GCA diagnosis—outperforming the traditional temporal artery biopsy, which is invasive, time ...
Q. A doctor told my cousin that she had arthritis in her head. I never heard of such a thing. Have you? A. I've never heard of head arthritis, but I don't think that's what the doctor said to your ...
Q. My husband has been having terrible pain shooting up the side of his left temple, and the vein swells as big as your little finger. The pain comes and goes, but it is becoming unbearable. He has ...
One of the earliest and best done trials of methotrexate in GCA was in 2002 and enrolled 98 patients, temporal artery biopsy proven (about 80%), who were started on prednisone and methotrexate (15 ...
Dear Dr. Roach: Your recent column featured polymyalgia rheumatica and prednisone. Would you please elaborate on how polymyalgia rheumatica can be linked to giant cell arteritis, and the consequences ...
In one study of 161 patients with biopsy-proven GCA followed up for 11 years, the prevalence of visual ischemic complications was 26.1% and the prevalence of irreversible blindness, mainly due to ...
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