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Giant Cell Arteritis

open access: yesHeadache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 2014
Giant cell arteritis ( GCA ) is a medium and large‐vessel vasculitis, which is an important cause of secondary headache in older adults. While GCA has a classic presentation occurring after the age of 50, atypical presentations (eg, fever of unknown ...
Jonathan H, Smith, Jerry W, Swanson
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Giant cell arteritis

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2016
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common vasculitis of the elderly. The diagnosis can be challenging at times because of the limitation of the American Rheumatology Association (ARA) classification criteria and the significant proportion of biopsy-negative patients with GCA.
Jem, Ninan   +2 more
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Giant cell arteritis

Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology, 2006
Giant cell, or temporal, arteritis is a vasculitis of the medium and large arteries that preferentially involves vessels originating from the arch of the aorta. Classically, this disease manifests in an older individual with new-onset persistent headache, an abnormal temporal artery on examination, and increased serum inflammatory markers. The level of
Todd J, Schwedt   +2 more
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Giant cell arteritis

Rheumatology International, 2008
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an immune-mediated chronic vasculitis of large- and medium-sized vessels usually occurring in White individuals aged over 50 years, in Western countries. The pathological hallmark of GCA is granulomatous inflammation of the involved vessels.
Xiang, Wang   +7 more
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Giant cell arteritis

Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 1999
Diagnosis and management of giant cell (temporal) arteritis (GCA) should be performed by physicians who can accurately monitor the ophthalmologic, neurologic, and systemic sequelae of the disease as well as the numerous side effects of systemic corticosteroids, which are typically necessary for treatment.
, Turbin, , Kupersmith
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Giant Cell Arteritis

Neurologic Clinics, 2019
"Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic, idiopathic, granulomatous vasculitis of medium and large arteries comprising overlapping phenotypes of cranial arteritis and extracranial GCA. Vascular complications are generally due to delay in diagnosis and initiation of effective treatment.
Karina, Lazarewicz, Pippa, Watson
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Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant-cell arteritis

open access: yesLancet, The, 2008
Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant-cell arteritis are closely related disorders that affect people of middle age and older. They frequently occur together.
Carlo Salvarani   +2 more
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GIANT CELL ARTERITIS

Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 1995
Whereas giant cell arteritis (GCA) was considered a rare disease 50 years ago, the generalized arteritis is now recognized as an important and significant cause of morbidity in elderly people; its cause and pathogenesis is poorly understood. Glucocorticosteroids are the drug of choice in all clinical types of GCA.
E, Nordborg   +4 more
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Giant-cell arteritis

The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1986
Giant-cell or temporal arteritis is a generalized vasculitis that predominantly affects large- and medium-sized arteries in people over 50 years of age. The illness is commonly characterized by the initial symptoms of headache, temporal artery tenderness or pulselessness, musculoskeletal pain, fever, and fatigue.
R K, Sherard, S T, Coleridge
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Giant-Cell Arteritis

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1978
Excerpt Although Horton described temporal arteritis in 1932, the syndrome did not get much attention until the past decade.
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