Giant cell arteritis, also referred to as ‘temporal arteritis’, is the most common vasculitis affecting persons over 50 years old. 1, 2 The disease preferentially affects large- and medium ...

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), ...

In addition to other acute or chronic inflammatory conditions (eg, temporal arteritis as suspected in this case, isolated polymyalgia rheumatica, gout, pseudogout, inflammatory bowel disease, etc ...

A corticosteroid can quickly relieve symptoms of both polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis. But a delay could cause vision loss, a stroke or even death.

Doctor: Temporal arteritis often misdiagnosed Seventy-one-year-old Carroll Maas of Wadena has lived through her share of pain, including childbirth, but living with the pain caused by temporal ...

Understand the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis, both inflammatory conditions.

Giant-cell arteritis typically involves extracranial branches of the aorta, such as the temporal and vertebral arteries. Temporal arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica often coexist, and systemic ma ...

Giant cell arteritis, also called temporal arteritis, is a disease that causes your arteries -- blood vessels that carry oxygen from your heart to the rest of your body -- to become inflamed. It ...

She was initially started on steroids for presumed giant cell arteritis (GCA), and a rush temporal artery biopsy was performed and appeared grossly nodular so she was treated with a 3-day course ...

Other evidence was the close proximity of VZV antigen in temporal arteries with adjacent GCA pathology, and the presence of VZV antigen and VZV DNA in skeletal muscle adjacent to VZV antigen ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for AbbVie’s 15mg Rinvoq (upadacitinib) to treat adults with giant cell arteritis (GCA).