The microscopical appearances are those of a granulomatous or giant-cell aortitis or mesaortitis, usually found in association with a temporal or cranial arteritis, 9,10 and closely corresponding ...

The diagnosis of temporal arteritis was confirmed histologically (figure 1 ... and a head impulse test localising the pathology to the left. 90 MRI showed gadolinium enhancement in the left ...

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.

Figure. Three-dimensional computed tomographic findings of an active phase of Takayasu arteritis (21 years, female). Three-dimensional computed tomographic findings include multiple stenotic lesions ...

vanderbilt.edu Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a rare disease affecting chiefly young women, although it can affect both men and women and persons of many different ethnicities. TA carries a high morbidity ...

Pathology is the precise study of the causes and consequences of a disease. The two major components of pathology are anatomical studies of structure and function at levels ranging from the whole ...

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Background and purpose Several epidemiologic studies reported increased mortality in patients with GCA, while others found that the overall survival was essentially identical to that of the general ...