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 ...

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 ...

Summary. Objective: Temporal arteritis is systemic vasculitis of medium and large sized vessels.The lowest incidence rates were reported in Turkey, Japan and Israel. We aimed to investigate the ...

Objective To develop and validate updated classification criteria for giant cell arteritis (GCA). Methods Patients with vasculitis or comparator diseases were recruited into an international cohort.

Giant cell arteritis, also called temporal arteritis, is a disease that causes your arteries -- blood vessels that carry oxygen from your heart to the rest of your body -- to become inflamed.

Traditionally, the diagnosis of TA has been based on the 1990 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria,3 4 with surgical biopsy and histopathology of the temporal artery considered gold ...

If temporal arteritis is suspected, but less convincing features are present, a temporal artery biopsy may confirm the diagnosis. The biopsy involves taking a sample from the artery located in the ...

12. Molina-Collada J, Castrejón I, Monjo I, Fernández-Fernández E, Torres Ortiz G, Álvaro-Gracia JM, et al. Performance of the 2022 ACR/EULAR giant cell arteritis classification criteria for diagnosis ...

Recently, in 2022, the ACR, together with the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR), have proposed new classification criteria for AAV—the 2022 ACR/EULAR criteria. These are based ...