PARIS — For the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis, cranial ultrasound is more sensitive than temporal artery biopsy, new research shows. "Giant cell arteritis can cause serious problems but is very ...

Color duplex sonography (CDS) of the temporal arteries should be performed before temporal-artery biopsy (TAB; the gold-standard diagnostic method) in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA), say ...

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 ...

Temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis of GCA and is desirable in all cases. Other tests being used as surrogate imaging are: ultrasonography, fluorodeoxyglucose PET (FDG-PET), ...

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 ...

Out of 165 older patients in whom GCA was strongly suspected, 73 (44%) had the telltale "halo" sign on temporal artery ultrasound; and of those, the GCA diagnosis was unchanged when re-examined 2 ...

Other major complications of GCA include stroke, MI, aortic aneurysm, and visceral organ infarcts due to the occlusion of large arteries. 1,4 While early diagnosis and treatment may decrease the ...

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 ...

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 ...

An 88-year-old woman was referred urgently by rheumatology to our neuro-ophthalmology clinic due to “going blind” in her left eye starting 3 weeks before presentation in the setting of very prominent ...