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

There are several diagnostic challenges in PMR. It is a heterogeneous disease and many features of PMR (pain, stiffness, systemic symptoms and peripheral arthritis) predispose the unwary clinician ...

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is characterized by granulomatous inflammation of medium and large arteries, including the temporal arteries and aorta. This article discusses how to counsel patients with ...

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.

Case 4 This previously reported 67-year-old woman with refractory PMR since 2003, presented in 2010 with worsening proximal pain and stiffness, temporal headache, weight loss and fatigue. 17 PET-CT ...

The halo sign, masticatory claudication, and patient’s age prompted the diagnosis of temporal arteritis (TA), whereas the echogenic intimal layer of the STA was interpreted as a consequence of the ...

The role of ultrasound compared to biopsy of temporal arteries in the diagnosis and treatment of giant cell arteritis (Tabul): a diagnostic accuracy and cost-effectiveness study.

In the RCT for TCZ in the Giant Cell Arteritis trial (GiACTA), the median daily prednisolone dose in the placebo group that underwent the 26-week steroid tapering was approximately 18 mg compared with ...

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

Temporal arteritis, or giant cell arteritis, is a vascular condition that causes headaches and pain when the arteries in the head become inflamed. What causes it is unclear, but medical care is ...