Giant cell arteritis: diagnosis and management.

Histopathologic Features of Giant Cell Arteritis in an Actinic Granuloma Lesion

The association between actinic granuloma and giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis) has been claimed by some authors. There is a hypothesis that actinic radiation has the principal role in the etiology of both diseases in a similar way. Here, we report a case of actinic granuloma that had characteristic pathologic features of giant cell arteritis in histopathologic examination without clini...

The diagnosis and management of patients with giant cell arteritis.

Giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica.

The close relationship between giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica has not been clearly explained. These disorders affect the same patient population and often coexist in the same person. Monitoring of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate is a useful tool in both diagnosis and treatment. Management with varying doses of prednisone has proved effective in resolving symptoms.

Utility of C-reactive protein in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis: better than the erythrocyte sedimentation rate?

1 ISSN 1758-4272 10.2217/IJR.12.21 © 2012 Future Medicine Ltd Int. J. Clin. Rheumatol. (2012) 7(3), 1–xxx “No laboratory test alone can substitute for a careful history and physical examination to initially characterize giant cell arteritis, nor does it provide sufficient information to direct optimum management. C-reactive protein, therefore, should be used in conjunction with other clinical a...

Giant cell arteritis: recent advances and guidelines for management.

This article reviews some of the recent work in epidemiology and pathology of giant cell arteritis (GCA), with particular regard to the immuno-histochemical findings in temporal artery biopsy (TAB) specimens. The diagnostic as well as prognostic role of biopsy histology is discussed. The role of novel imaging techniques e.g. duplex ultrasonography and FDG-PET scanning in diagnosis and staging o...