For the diagnosis of GCA the ACR classification criteria are still used, but are less helpful for classifying GCA without temporal arteritis. Comments 3090D553-9492-4563-8681-AD288FA52ACE ...

Visual loss is a serious complication in temporal arteritis. Involvement of extracranial arteries and aorta is certainly under-recognized at present. For the diagnosis of GCA the ACR classification ...

For the diagnosis of GCA the ACR classification criteria are still used, but are less helpful for classifying GCA without temporal arteritis. Figure 1. Diagnostic approaches for polymyalgia ...

Overall sensitivity and specificity of the 1990 ACR criteria was 53.2% and 80.2%, ... Vascular imaging modalities are more frequently used nowadays to evaluate patients with suspected giant cell ...

Using the 2022 ACR/EULAR classification criteria, we found that patients with a large-vessel giant cell arteritis (LV-GCA) subtype may be better identified, a subtype that has been increasingly ...

Introduction. In patients with suspected giant cell arteritis (GCA), a hypoechoic halo detected by duplex sonography (DS) around temporal arteries has been suggested to identify vessel wall ...

Causes of Giant Cell Arteritis (Temporal Arteritis):Giant Cell Arteritis is an autoimmune disorder where the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy blood vessels, leading to inflammation. While ...

Carpal tunnel syndrome may serve as an early, underrecognized clinical feature of RA, especially among seronegative patients.

At the forefront of discussions at ACR 2024 was the success of autologous CD19-directed CAR-T cell therapies in addressing B cell-mediated autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

Conclusion In 197 patients originally diagnosed with IPAF and followed for up to 18.5 yr., a classification of systemic lupus erythematosus could be made using SLICC criteria in 6.0% of patients and ...