temporal arteritistemporal artery biopsyTemporal arteritis is the most common form of systemic vasculitis affecting elderly persons. The disease is considered a medical emergency, with potentially severe ophthalmic complications such as rapidly progressive irreversible visual loss. A prompt diagnosis and an ...
Concordance of Bilateral Temporal Artery Biopsy in Giant Cell Arteritis Pless M, Rizzo JF, Lamkin JC et al (2000) Concordance of bilateral temporal artery biopsy in giant cell arteritis. J Neuroophthalmol 20:216–218... M Pless,JF Rizzo,JC Lamkin,... - Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the...
Temporal artery biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis. Systemic steroid prevented further visual loss in the second eye.Conclusions: We believe that this is the first report in literature on the ophthalmological presentation of giant cell arteritis in a Chinese patient Giant cell ...
Rate of Discordant Findings in Bilateral Temporal Artery Biopsy to Diagnose Giant Cell Arteritis To determine to what extent performing simultaneous bilateral temporal artery biopsies might increase the diagnostic sensitivity in giant cell arteritis (G... GS Breuer,G Nesher,R Nesher - 《Journal of Rhe...
In GCA, temporal artery biopsy remains the standard for ... Frank,Buttgereit,Christian,... - 《Jama》 被引量: 39发表: 2016年 Inflamed shoulder structures in polymyalgia rheumatica with normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate Moreover, bilateral subacromial/subdeltoid bursitis represents the imaging ...
and biopsy data of a 53-year-old patient who presented with bilateral angle closure glaucoma and was found to have giant cell arteritis.A temporal artery biopsy revealed near transmural focal scarring of the media with disruption of the internal elastic lamina consistent with giant cell arteritis ...
Some of the authors used: a Doppler ultrasonography of the cervical vessels [11,23], visually evoked potentials [19], a lumbar puncture [21,23], a biopsy of the temporal artery to exclude a rheumatic AION as a differential diagnosis [23], or an investigation concerning a microbiological ...
The patient had two initial non-diagnostic stereotactic needle biopsies. In view of the ongoing symptoms and lack of a definitive diagnosis, a decision was made to proceed with an open biopsy. The patient underwent a diag...
Section > Chapter Konig, M.F.; Faller, G.T. Arthritis and Rheumatology 72(7): 1159 2020 ISSN/ISBN:2326-5191 32271488 10.1002/art.41279 070003197 Article/Abstract emailed within 0-6 h Buy Now for$19.90 Payments are secure & encrypted ...
The results of this study indicate that performing a bilateral simultaneous or sequential temporal artery biopsy improves the diagnostic yield in at least 3% of cases of giant cell arteritis, whereas in 97% of cases, the two specimens show the same findings. Thus, in patients in whom only one...