Importance Current clinical guidelines recommend selecting diagnostic tests for giant cell
arteritis (GCA) based on pretest probability that the disease is present, but how pretest …

Systemic vasculitides are multisystem blood vessel disorders, which are defined by the size
of the vessel predominantly affected, namely small, medium, or large vessels. The term …

ContextClinicians must be able to confidently diagnose temporal arteritis (TA), since failure
to make a correct diagnosis may lead to irreversible visual loss as well as inappropriate …

Purpose To ascertain the validity, reliability, sensitivity, and specificity of various signs and
symptoms of and diagnostic tests for early diagnosis of giant cell arteritis. Methods From …

Objective To identify clinical and biochemical parameters that have good predictive value for
identifying giant cell (temporal) arteritis (GCA) patients who are at high or low risk of …

Objectives: To examine the frequency and features of patients with biopsy-negative giant
cell arteritis (GCA), establish differences with biopsy-proven GCA, and identify the optimal …

Headaches are one of the most common symptoms that neurologists evaluate. Although
most are caused by primary headcache disorders, the differential diagnosis is one of the …

The treatment of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and temporal arteritis (TA) is still
controversial. To assess the influence on the course of these diseases of the clinical …

Objective. To identify shared and distinct features of giant cell arteritis (GCA) and
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to reduce diagnostic errors that could cause delays in …

Objective Occasionally, a temporal artery biopsy reveals small‐vessel vasculitis (SVV)
surrounding a spared temporal artery, the significance of which is unclear. We analyzed the …