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), ...

Aim: To establish the histological and immunohistochemical parameters that are helpful in recognising temporal arteritis in patients who have been treated with steroids before biopsy, and to analyse ...

5. Positive temporal artery biopsy Biopsy specimen with the artery showing vasculitis characterized by prominence of mononuclear cell infiltration or granulocyte inflammation, often with ...

SEVILLE, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective, Andrew G. Lee, MD, discusses whether temporal artery ultrasound can be used in place of temporal artery biopsy in the diagnosis of giant ...

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 ...

Temporal arteritis is a sight-threatening condition requiring urgent intervention. We present the case of an 81-year-old gentleman with a blind right eye who presented with persistent unilateral ...

All pathology reports were reviewed. Patients were identified as having GCA if the report stated a diagnosis of GCA, temporal arteritis, granulomatous arteritis, or unequivocally indicated ...

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 ...

Patients were diagnosed as having GCA if the pathology report stated the diagnosis of ‘giant cell arteritis’, ‘temporal arteritis’, ‘granulomatous arteritis’, or unequivocally indicated infiltration ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Giant cell arteritis, also known as temporal arteritis, is a less common condition where people get inflammation of the arteries that go to the head and neck.

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 ...

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