PARIS — For the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis, cranial ultrasound is more sensitive than temporal artery biopsy, new research shows. "Giant cell arteritis can cause serious problems but is very ...

A 78-year-old man was referred for an ultrasound of his right eye to evaluate a small choroidal nevus. He also mentioned almost total loss of vision in his left eye over the past several days. His ...

Color duplex sonography (CDS) of the temporal arteries should be performed before temporal-artery biopsy (TAB; the gold-standard diagnostic method) in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA), say ...

Temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis of GCA and is desirable in all cases. Other tests being used as surrogate imaging are: ultrasonography, fluorodeoxyglucose PET (FDG-PET), ...

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) can cause blindness and rarely death. A clinical diagnosis is confirmed with biochemical tests and temporal artery biopsy. 1 Sometimes the manifestations of GCA are subtle; ...

Senescence pathways are involved in giant cell arteritis (GCA), an analysis of patient tissue samples suggested, which may account for the efficacy of one agent now used for the disease and another in ...

A new study presented for the first time today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2014), shows that cranial ultrasound has a greater sensitivity than temporal artery ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Your recent column featured polymyalgia rheumatica and prednisone. Would you please elaborate on how polymyalgia rheumatica can be linked to giant cell arteritis, and the consequences ...