The article offers information on temporal arteritis. It is characterized by headaches, difficulty chewing and visual impairment. It is averred that timely diagnosis and treatment with high-dose steroids can forbid visual loss. The headache is frequently non-specific in charac...
Temporal arteritis in the form of giant cell arteritis (GCA) is common in the elderly but is extremely rare in patients less than 50 years of age. We describe two male patients: one who presented at the age of 31 years with painful, nodular swellings of both temporal arteries and whose ...
Temporal-artery biopsy revealed 2 different types of arteritis: the multinucleated giant cell type and the panarteritis type without multinucleated giant cells. One patient was positive for immunoglobulin G anticardiolipin antibody. The pathologic findings of the different subsets of temporal arteritis, ...
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We report a case of hospitalized patient with fever of unknown origin in whom the diagnosis of temporal arteritis was confirmed by temporal artery biopsy. The disease clinicaly presented with fever, headache and polymyalgia rheumatica. The pathological laboratory findings showed accelerated erythrocyte sed...
Temporal Artery Biopsy: Skip It at Your Patient's Peril. Am J 22 Ophthalmol. 2012;154:617-619.Ramstead CL, Patel AD. Giant cell arteritis in a ... CL Ramstead,AD Patel - 《J.can.duophtalmol》 被引量: 31发表: 2007年 Temporal arteritis: a decision-analytic approach to temporal artery...
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a systemic granulomatous vasculitis of unknown etiology, that, typically, involves the branches of carotid artery (especially of temporal artery), but it can involve any medium-size or large artery, and then its diagnosis becomes much more difficult (1). Temporal ...
arteritis (GCA), or temporal arteritis, is a systemic inflammatory vasculitis of unknown etiology that occurs in older persons and can result in a wide variety of systemic, neurologic, and ophthalmologic complications. Characteristic findings of an inflamed vessel wall in temporal arteritis are shown ...
William Brodie Adams, MD;Charlie A. Becknell, MD Arch Dermatol.2007;143(8):1073-1087. doi:10.1001/archderm.143.8.1079 FullText Temporal arteritis (TA), also known as giant cell arteritis, is a panarteritis of the medium and large vessels typically seen in patients older than 50 years. Th...