The diagnostic of giant cell arteritis was then considered and confirmed by the presence of headaches, 38掳C fever and inflammatory syndrome with ESR at 75 mm in the first hour. On the other hand, biopsy of a temporal artery was negative. Corticosteroid therapy was prescribed and gave ...
Les auteurs ont étudié l'apport du doppler dans le diagnostic de la maladie de Horton, l'appréciation du risque ophtalmologique, la surveillance du traitement. L'étude a concerné 24 patients et 20 sujets témoins (âge moyen = 68 ans) indemnes d'artérite inflammatoire. Un score (...
For 11 years now, Medecins du Monde's Mission to France has tried to respond to the needs of a part of a marginalized population, which has no access to health care. In 1996, 72,000 consultations have been given throughout the 31 free Health centers based in 31 cities in France. Who...
Taken together, first we propose to review the diagnostic criteria of giant cell arteritis (ACR, GRACG) and PMR (Bird, Jones-Hazleman, Chuang-Hunder, Dasgupta). Second, more recent diagnostic criteria of GCA and PMR are further reviewed, including biochemical/immunological data (especially anti-...
Dans une étude rétrospective portant sur 48 patients avec une aortite de Horton, l’atteinte aortique était présente lors du diagnostic dans la très grande majorité des cas (83 %), avait précédé le diagnostic de MH de 5 mois dans un cas et s’était développée lors de l’...
Une corticothérapie a été initiée à une dose de 1 mg/kg/jour sous couverture de traitement anti-tuberculeux et au 4e jour, une biopsie de l’artère temporale (BAT) a été réalisée confirmant le diagnostic de maladie de Horton, la cortisone a été poursuivi au long cours à ...
Rather than an approach aimed at investigating for an organ disease, the diagnostic approach is based on the concept of functional decompensation systematically involving 3 levels: aging and the chronic diseases jointly responsible for a decrease in functional reserves and a third......
doi:10.1016/S0248-8663(01)83476-7C. StradyJ. JegouA. StradyG. RemyR. JaussaudLa Revue de Médecine Interne
Horton's diseasePolymyalgia rheumaticaCriteriaDiagnosisTemporal artery biopsyTemporal arteries ultrasonographyPolymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant-cell arteritis (GCA) are defined with reference to classification criteria: for GCA, the American College of Rheumatology criteria are widely used, but for PMR ...
Fatores de Riscomixed states were almost forgotten during the last century and in modern diagnostic criteria of dsmiv and icd 10 they were characterized as episodes with manic and depressive syndromes simultaneously, described as mixed mania, dysphoric mania or depression during mania. validation ...