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

Temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis of GCA and is desirable in all cases. Other tests being used as surrogate imaging are: ultrasonography, fluorodeoxyglucose PET (FDG-PET ...

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

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 ...

Coronary angiography showed severe stenosis of the right coronary artery, and a stent was placed ... On examination, the temporal temperature was 36.3°C, the heart rate 79 beats per minute ...

More than 50% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) develop lupus nephritis (LN) during the disease, which may ...

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 ...

The third monkey developed a mild, biopsy-confirmed rejection episode ... create an end-to-side anastamosis between the donor renal artery and recipient distal aorta as well as between the donor ...

A lung biopsy involves the removal of tissue or growths from the lungs. A doctor will use special devices, such as a fine needle, to remove the sample. A lung biopsy can help diagnose lung ...