Cardiovascular diseases are a leading health concern in Hong Kong, prompting many to undergo regular heart check-ups for ...

Patients from lower socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds are more likely to undergo temporal artery biopsy (TAB) but are not at increased risk for biopsy-confirmed giant cell arteritis (GCA), ...

Objective Previous studies, although inconclusive, have suggested possible associations of environmental risk factors with the development of giant cell arteritis (GCA). We aim to investigate seasonal ...

Negative temporal artery biopsies: eventual diagnoses and features of patients with biopsy-negative giant cell arteritis compared to patients without arteritis.

We aimed to investigate the results of patients with biopsy-proven temporal arteritis and those classified according to the American College of Rheumatology criteria from a low-incidence region for ...

Background Vascular inflammation persists in temporal artery biopsy (TAB) of giant cell arteritis (GCA) patients even after prolonged glucocorticoid (GC) therapy. We aimed to evaluate the histological ...

Although its role has been debated, temporal artery biopsy (TAB) remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of cranial giant cell arteritis (GCA). The specificity of TAB is excellent and the ...

The Ing and Weis prediction models can prevent unnecessary temporal artery biopsies for suspected giant cell arteritis. A pair of giant cell arteritis screening tools have proven to significantly ...

Temporal artery biopsy (TAB) is one of the five criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1990 classification, which is used to aid the diagnosis of GCA. TAB is an invasive test, and it ...

Temporal arteritis occurs when the temporal arteries, which supply blood to the head and brain, become inflamed or damaged.

With a specificity of 100%, a temporal artery biopsy (TAB) with histopathology demonstrating necrotizing arteritis characterized by a predominance of mononuclear cell infiltrates or a granulomatous ...