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Giant cell arteritis-mediated polymyalgia rheumatica is a typical disease of old age; though manifestation is rare in patients younger than 50 years, there is no upper age limit. Average disease-onset is at age 70. Typical symptoms and high serological inflammation are found.
Anne E. Dixon
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The lecture presents an update on the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment stages of polymyalgia rheumatica, a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, which affects older people.--
A. M. Satybaldyev+3 more
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Imaging in polymyalgia rheumatica
Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a chronic, inflammatory disorder of unknown cause clinically characterized by pain and prolonged morning stiffness affecting the shoulders and often the pelvic girdle and neck.
N. Possemato, C. Salvarani, N. Pipitone
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Elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis vs. polymyalgia rheumatica: Differences in pathogenesis
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disease that mainly affects the facet joints. Elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis appears to exhibit symptoms similar to those of polymyalgia rheumatica, characterized by morning stiffness and pain in the ...
Jinzhi Wu+4 more
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Relapse of polymyalgia rheumatica following adjuvanted influenza vaccine: A case-based review [PDF]
Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is the most common inflammatory rheumatological condition affecting individuals aged >50 years. There have been rare reports of PMR and other vasculitides developing within 3 months of influenza vaccination.
Bassendine, Margaret F., Bridge, Simon
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Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease with unknown aetiology, affecting predominately people of middle age and older. Besides clinical symptoms and diagnostics, imaging techniques including sonography and magnetic resonance imaging may provide evidence of typical inflammatory lesions with bilateral bursitis ...
C, Duftner, C, Dejaco, M, Schirmer
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Vertebral osteomyelitis and epidural abscess due to Listeria monocytogenes – case report and review of literature [PDF]
We describe a case of native vertebral osteomyelitis (NVO) secondary to Listeria monocytogenes in a patient with polymyalgia rheumatica receiving chronic steroids.
O. I. Adebolu+4 more
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Characterising those with incident polymyalgia rheumatica in primary care: results from the PMR Cohort Study. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The aim was to characterise the sociodemographic, general health and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR)-specific features of participants in a large inception cohort of patients with PMR diagnosed in UK primary care.
Barraclough, K+7 more
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Polymyalgia rheumatica in the 2018–2020 guidelines. Part II: diagnosis of vasculitis
The issue of improved diagnosis of both rheumatic diseases of the elderly and aortic diseases does not lose its relevance. In terms of aortic aneurysms, dissection and ruptures and their attended pathogenesis, both inflammation and structural wall ...
О.H. Puzanova, А.А. Lyzikov
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A 77-year-old woman had 2 weeks of fever and flu-like symptoms starting several hours after receiving an mRNA booster for SARS-CoV-2 and the influenza vaccine, in separate shots. Laboratory tests showed cholangitis.
Linda L Restifo, Robert P Erickson
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