Vasculitis is an autoimmune disorder that causes inflammation of the blood vessels. It can affect arteries, veins, and capillaries. This condition causes blood vessel walls to swell, which restricts ...

Objectives Giant cell arteritis (GCA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) are overlapping autoinflammatory diseases affecting people over 50 years. The diseases are treated with immunosuppressive drugs ...

Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common inflammatory condition affecting elderly people and involving the girdles. [1] The mainstay of treatment is oral glucocorticoids (GC), with the recent BSR ...

The CHMP has recommended the approval of AbbVie's upadacitinib (Rinvoq) for treating adults with giant cell arteritis (GCA).

Reducing glucocorticoid use in the treatment of giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica — due to the steroid’s host of related toxicities and adverse effects — has long been a goal ...

The term scleritis describes a chronic inflammation that involves the outermost coat and skeleton of the eye. Disease can be isolated to the eye, but in up to half of affected individuals it ...