(2012) Headache and Temporal Arteritis: When to Suspect and How to Manage. Current Pain and Headache Reports 16 , 371-378 /Nahas SJ. Headache and temporal arteritis: when to suspect and how to manage. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2012;16(4):371-378....
The life expectancy of people withtemporal arteritis(giant cell arteritis) depends on how early it was diagnosed and treated. Most people have an almost normal life expectancy with prompt treatment. For untreated individuals, the prognosis is quite poor, and death may occur due to reasons, such ...
Giant cell arteritis, or temporal arteritis, is a known cause of head pain and is often felt on one side in the temple region, which can cause sharp pain in left side of head. The cause is inflammation of the lining inside an artery (blood vessel) in the head. Signs and symptoms incl...
We report two cases of sudden loss of vision in the second eye, within a few hours of loss of vision in the first, in association with occult giant cell arteritis. Both cases presented with bilateral disc edema. The importance of starting steroid therapy to prevent sight- or life-threatening...
How common is inflammatory marker-negative disease in giant cell arteritis? Eye 2013; 27(1): 106–108 3 Walvick MD, Walvick MP. Giant cell arteritis: laboratory predictors of a positive temporal artery biopsy. Ophthalmology 2011; 118(6): 1201–1204. 4 Kermani TA, Schmidt J, Crowson CS...
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How does previous corticosteroid treatment affect the biopsy findings in giant cell (temporal) arteritis? Ann Intern Med 1994;120:987-92.Achkar AA, Lie JT, Hunder GG, O'Fallon WM, Gabriel SE. How does previous corticosteroid treatment affect the biopsy findings in giant cell (temporal) ...