Temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard for the diagnosis of GCA. Polymyalgia rheumatica should be diagnosed by a stepped diagnostic process using inclusion and exclusion criteria and careful ...

It has been alternatively called cranial arteritis or temporal arteritis, reflecting the most commonly affected vessels. However, this terminology minimizes the systemic nature of this vasculitis and ...

Biopsy specimen with the artery showing vasculitis characterized by prominence of mononuclear cell infiltration or granulocyte inflammation, often with multinucleated giant cells For purposes of ...

The temporal-artery biopsy showed acute and chronic inflammatory cells in all layers of a thickened blood-vessel wall, with fibroblastic proliferation of the media, ...

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 ...

Objective: To investigate the relation between temporal artery biopsy (TAB) length and diagnostic sensitivity for giant cell arteritis. Methods: Histological TAB reports generated from four hospital ...

Eighty-four of 132 patients with clinically genuine cranial arteritis had histological evidence of inflammation at temporal artery biopsy. The highest incidence of a positive result (82%) was in ...

The present case report focuses on an immunocompromised 81-year-old patient initially diagnosed with Waldenström’s disease. The patient experienced a gradual vision loss and jaw pain with high ...

Objective: To study the epidemiology of biopsy-proven giant-cell arteritis (GCA) in an Arab population with clinical features suggestive of GCA. Methods: Clinical records of 102 patients who underwent ...

The genetic basis of giant cell arteritis is not fully understood but may play a role in treatment resistance and increased risk of ischaemic complications, including permanent vision loss. We present ...

Two studies (93 patients) investigating PET for GCA diagnosis reported sensitivities of 67%–77% and specificities of 66%–100% as compared with clinical diagnosis or temporal artery biopsy. In TAK, one ...