Corticosteroid dosage for temporal arteritis.

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Temporal arteritis.

Temporal or giant cell arteritis is an inflammation of medium and small extracranial vessels that may result in ocular ischemia, an aortitis followed by aortic dissection and peripheral limb ischemia. It should be considered a medical emergency due to the seriousness of end organ damage, in particular visual symptoms. While the presentation may be nonspecific, the presence of a tender temporal ...

A circulating anticoagulant occurring after temporal arteritis and controlled by corticosteroid therapy.

A case is described in which a circulating anticoagulant, inhibiting antihaemophilic globulin, developed following temporal arteritis. The circulating anticoagulant disappeared with steroid therapy, reappearing when steroids were withdrawn. Permanent maintenance therapy appears necessary in this case to prevent haemorrhagic manifestations.

Scleritis and temporal arteritis.

Thirty consecutive patients with severe scleritis or episcleritis were admitted as in-patients to the Medical Ophthalmology Unit and assessed for systemic disease. There were seventeen women and thirteen men. The mean age was 53 with a median of 57 (range 23-83). Eighteen of the patients had scleritis: eleven of these had evidence of connective tissue disease and three of them had temporal art...

Ophthalmic manifestations of temporal arteritis.

TEMPORAL arteritis is the name given to a local and systemic symptom complex that attacks patients between the ages of 55 and 85 years. It is a benign self-limiting disease, insidious in development, with a course lasting over several months. As the name implies, a very regular feature is an inflammation of the temporal arteries of the scalp, but the disease is not confined to these vessels and...