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

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

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of temporal artery biopsy (TAB) techniques on establishing a diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA). METHODS: A retrospective review of 141 TAB pathology ...

aSection of Musculoskeletal Disease, NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Chapel Allerton Hospital, ...

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 ...