A recent study found that combined tocilizumab and glucocorticoid therapy for at least 6 months did not fully eliminate ...

Patients with predominantly cranial vs isolated extracranial GCA phenotypes present with different patterns of arterial involvement on 18F-FDG PET-CT scans.

A 41-year-old man was evaluated for swelling in the ankles and syncope. CT of the chest showed bilateral mediastinal and ...

Temporal artery biopsy confirmed GCA. PET-CT scan revealed LVV in the right axillary artery and thoracic aorta. GC treatment was started (prednisolone 60 mg) with improvement of CRP from 155 to 13 but ...

Current biomarkers, including elevated serum erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C‐reactive protein (CRP), lack specificity (41.3%) and positive predictive value (29.3%) even in patients with ...

We calculated sensitivity (Sn), specificity (Sp), positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of the HS, HC, OGUS and sonographers opinion against the clinical diagnosis at 6 ...

2 days before the biopsy. The diagnosis of temporal arteritis was confirmed histologically (figure 1). On methylprednisolone treatment 100 mg per day he became asymptomatic within 2 weeks, apart from ...

A group led by the Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, has succeeded in the diagnosis ...