Patients presenting with isolated extracranial manifestations of giant cell arteritis ... received temporal artery biopsy (TAB), among which 53 (57%) had positive results; 18 out of 63 patients (27.3% ...

a patient with vasculitis shall be said to have giant cell temporal arteritis if at least three of these five criteria are present. Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a medical emergency. The concept ...

Visual loss is the most feared complication in temporal arteritis, and extracranial arteries and/or aorta are more often involved in GCA than previously estimated. No specific laboratory parameter ...