Positive temporal artery biopsy Biopsy specimen with the ... a patient with vasculitis shall be said to have giant cell temporal arteritis if at least three of these five criteria are present.

A diagnosis of giant cell arteritis is based largely on symptoms and a physical examination. The exam may reveal that the temporal artery is inflamed and tender to the touch, and that it has a reduced ...

Temporal-artery ultrasonography revealed circumferential thickening of the wall of the bilateral superficial temporal arteries and narrowing of the inner lumen (macaroni sign) (figure 3). On biopsy of ...

Temporal arteries were pulsatile and not tender. ESR was 71 mm in the first hour. C reactive protein (CRP) was 218 g/l. Neuroimaging excluded an intracranial aneurysm. Left temporal artery biopsy, ...

Temporal artery abnormality (i.e., temporal artery tenderness to palpation or decreased pulsation, unrelated to arteriosclerosis of cervical arteries); Temporal artery or large vessel biopsy showing ...

features of giant cell arteritis (GCA) including worrying visual complications were first noted. His inflammatory markers (C-reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation rate) were not significantly ...

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All patients underwent bilateral ultrasound examination of the three temporal artery (TA) segments and axillary arteries, prior to TA biopsy. The extent of vascular inflammation was quantified by (1) ...

Conclusion: Temporal artery biopsy is useful several weeks after institution of steroids. Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology, which most commonly affects medium ...

Indeed, temporal arteries and aortas of GCA-patients can show immune-mediated ... 105–107 Lineage tracing and scRNA-seq studies have demonstrated in atherosclerosis and pulmonary artery hypertension ...

High-resolution compression sonography (18 MHz) images of the temporal arteries (frontal and parietal branch at the upper margin of the auricle) and facial arteries (at the crossing point of the ...