Polymyalgia rheumatica must be differentiated from many conditions since the diagnosis remains entirely clinical. Osteoarthritis, flu syndromes, inflammatory myopathies, fibromyalgia, and depression all have features that may mimic polymyalgia rheumatica. Malignancies and infections may also be difficult to ...
Giant-Cell Arteritis and Polymyalgia Rheumatica 来自 ResearchGate 喜欢 0 阅读量: 46 作者:CM Weyand,Jrg J. Goronzy 摘要: With the advent of the Critical Zone Observatory Network, new opportunities are emerging to link the geological and ecological aspects of environmental science. Interactions between...
ObjectiveThe interleukin-6 pathway is up-regulated in giant cell arteritis (GCA), Takayasu arteritis (TA), and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). We retrospectively assessed the outcomes of 10 patients with relapsing/refractory GCA, TA, or PMR treated with tocilizumab (TCZ).MethodsPatients with GCA (...
Cite this: Current Understanding and Management of Giant Cell Arteritis and Polymyalgia Rheumatica - Medscape - Nov 01, 2010. Abstract and Introduction Epidemiology Histopathology Pathogenesis of GCA & PMR GCA: A T-cell-driven Disease Breakdown of Tolerance: Aberrant Maturation of DCs in the Adventit...
Objectives: To assess the discrimination capacity of this questionnaire, its internal consistency and validity. Methods: The questions were formulated in a general way emphasizing the recently applied medication, but without using the term CS. However, they were targeting the most commonly reported CS...
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BackgroundIt has been reported that the specificity for discriminating polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was up to 70% with 2012 EULAR/ACR provisional classification criteria. There are many similarities between PMR and RA, especially late-onset RA, and it may lead to ...
Polymyalgia rheumaticadoi:10.1503/cmaj.210541GIANT cell arteritisPOLYMYALGIA rheumaticaMEDICAL educationSHOULDER osteoarthritisSYMPTOMSTapering below 10 mg/d should be started once clinical and biochemical remission (normalization of ESR or CRP or both) is achieved.[4] Specialist referral is warranted for ...
EXPRESS STOP Diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica: The typical patient with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is an elderly white person with complaints of bilateral pain in the shoulders and hips. The sed rate is almost always elevated, at least to 50 mm/h Westergren. While diagnosis ...
polymyalgia rheumaticaBackground: Antibodies [Abs] to alpha-elastin [elastin breakdown product] and tropoelastin [elastin precursor] are found in serum of all human subjects and correlate with their respective serum peptide levels. Serum elastin peptide levels vary with age and some disease states. ...