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.

Fortunately, bilateral subclavian artery disease is an infrequent finding, and when it occurs, it can represent either atherosclerosis or underlying arteritis ... CT scans for imaging the vascular ...

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic systemic vasculitis affecting ... ITAS 2010 (a validated disease assessment tool for large vessel vasculitis (LVV)) and by imaging in one case. This is an open ...

Neuralgias are characterised by stabs of short lasting, lancinating pain, and, although neuralgias are often primary, imaging may be needed to exclude ... which can radiate to the temporal region or ...

Background: The 2022 EULAR guidelines state “Ultrasound of temporal and axillary arteries should be considered as the first imaging modality to investigate ... OMERACT ultrasonography score for giant ...

we presented a series of images which summarise the various imaging modalities utilised in the management of Takayasu’s arteritis (TA)—a rare autoimmune vasculitis which affects the aorta and its ...

1 Clinical Investigation Centre Biotherapy INSERM CIC-1431, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France 2 Fédération Hospitalo-Universitaire INCREASE, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, ...

We recommend that a suspected diagnosis of LVV should be confirmed by imaging or histology. High dose glucocorticoid therapy (40–60 mg/day prednisone-equivalent) should be initiated immediately for ...

Brandye Pitz, CT technologist; Dr. Nicholas Satovick, radiologist; and Lea Moss, MRI technologist at Montana Imaging Center in Kalispell on Wednesday, Jan. 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake ...