ALLMedicine™ Temporal Artery Biopsy Center
Research & Reviews 203 results
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2022.152017
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism; Hemmig AK, Gozzoli D et. al.
May 11th, 2022 - To determine the prevalence and predictors of subclinical giant cell arteritis (GCA) in patients with newly diagnosed polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science Core Collection were systematically searched (date of last searc...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-022-05137-w 10.1186/s13075-021-02450-w 10.1002/art.37715 10.2174/1573397115666190227194014 10.1016/j.jaut.2019.05.011 10.1002/art.21075 10.1016/j.autrev.2017.11.029 10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-215672 10.1002/art.1780330810 10.3899/jrheum.110934 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1991.tb04707.x 10.1007/s00296-014-2958-6 10.1016/j.revmed.2007.01.023 10.7759/cureus.10163 10.1016/s0248-8663(02)00809-3 10.1016/j.revmed.2009.05.005 10.1097/00000441-200610000-00007 10.1016/s0300-8932(00)75153-0 10.4321/s0212-71992006000800007 10.1136/bcr.12.2011.5469 10.1016/S0025-7753(00)71441-2 10.7861/clinmedicine.13-6-625 10.24911/ejmcr/173-1558113081 10.1002/clc.22927 10.1136/ard.60.8.811a 10.1136/ard.49.12.1001 10.12890/2018_000779 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.872903 10.1016/j.tcm.2020.04.006
Rheumatology International; Gomes de Pinho Q, Daumas A et. al.
May 8th, 2022 - Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most frequent vasculitis affecting adults aged > 50 years. Cardiac involvement in GCA is considered rare, and only a few cases of pericarditis have been reported. The aim of this study was to determine the charact...
https://doi.org/10.1097/WNO.0000000000001535
Journal of Neuro-ophthalmology : the Official Journal of ... Shen A, Gruener AM et. al.
Apr 20th, 2022 - Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common vasculitis in adults and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Temporal artery biopsy (TAB) remains the gold standard for diagnosis in the United States; however, practices vary in th...
https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000200749
Neurology Swart G, Balgobind S et. al.
Apr 17th, 2022 - A 63-year-old man presented with sudden bilateral lower limb weakness and right sided sensory loss to pain and temperature, on a background of recently diagnosed biopsy-negative giant cell arteritis (GCA) treated with prednisone 50mg. ESR was norm...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autrev.2022.103083
Autoimmunity Reviews; Evangelatos G, Grivas A et. al.
Mar 29th, 2022 - Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a large-vessel vasculitis that affects cranial and extra-cranial arteries. Extra-cranial GCA presents mainly with non-specific symptoms and the differential diagnosis is very broad, while the cranial form has more typ...
Clinicaltrials.gov 7 results
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05248906
Feb 21st, 2022 - A prospective study. Investigating the use of ultrasound, temporal artery biopsy, biomarkers and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography for establishing a diagnosis of giant cell (temporal) arteritis.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05246540
Feb 18th, 2022 - Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common vasculitis in adults. The diagnosis of GCA is evoked by the association of clinical signs and biological anomalies (inflammatory syndrome) in patients over 50 years of age. On the other hand, starting ...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04888221
May 17th, 2021 - Giant cell arteritis (GCA) in the elderly is considered a medical emergency in case of ischemic complication, urgent treatment is needed and high doses of intravenous steroids are used. To date, usual treatments added to steroids have not been sho...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04102930
May 12th, 2021 - Giant cell arteritis (GCA), also known as temporal arteritis, is the most common form of primary systemic vasculitis, with up to 75,000 cases a year identified in the EU and US. It occurs almost exclusively in people over the age of 50 years and i...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02771483
Mar 12th, 2020 - Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a medium to large vessel vasculitis with a predilection for the superficial cranial and intrathoracic arteries. Diagnosing the condition and predicting which patients will develop large vessel complications remains a ...
News 45 results
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/964298
Dec 7th, 2021 - Temporal artery biopsy has been the standard for diagnosing giant cell arteritis (GCA), but vascular ultrasound, a procedure that's less invasive, less time-intensive, less expensive, and more convenient, has gained widespread use in Europe, and n...
https://www.medpagetoday.com/rheumatology/generalrheumatology/91670
Mar 17th, 2021 - The incidence of the vasculitis known as giant cell arteritis varied considerably according to geography, a meta-analysis found. The overall global incidence of giant cell arteritis, calculated as 50-year incidence rates, was 10 per 100,000 (95% C...
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/946408
Feb 24th, 2021 - Positive findings from frozen sections of a first temporal artery biopsy can effectively identify giant cell arteritis, ruling out in those cases the need to perform a second biopsy on the contralateral side and arguing against the use of simultan...
https://www.staging.medscape.com/viewarticle/936665
Sep 1st, 2020 - A new retrospective analysis has found 1.5 cm to 2 cm to be the optimal length of a temporal artery biopsy for detecting giant cell arteritis. Longer lengths did not yield enough improvement in diagnosis to justify the increased risk of complicati...
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/936665
Sep 1st, 2020 - A new retrospective analysis has found 1.5 cm to 2 cm to be the optimal length of a temporal artery biopsy for detecting giant cell arteritis. Longer lengths did not yield enough improvement in diagnosis to justify the increased risk of complicati...
