Giant cell arteritis (a.k.a., Horton’s temporal arteritis) belongs to the vasculitis group of diseases and affects the great vessels, especially branches of the carotid arteries in the head. Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) was formerly regarded as an independent disease. Nowadays, due to shared accumulations, it is also commonly assumed that these two diseases are caused by identical pathogeneses,...

Giant cell arteritis (a.k.a., Horton’s temporal arteritis) belongs to the vasculitis group of diseases and affects the great vessels, especially branches of the carotid arteries in the head. Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) was formerly regarded as an independent disease. Nowadays, due to shared accumulations, it is also commonly assumed that these two diseases are caused by identical pathogeneses,...

One of the major problems in the management of patients with temporal arteritis, particularly those in whom loss of vision in one eye has already occurred, is to decide for how long corticosteroid therapy should be continued. The following case report is presented because it suggests that the disease process may remain active for a very long time, in this instance 7 years, and even then, despit...

Introduction Temporal (syn. giant-cell, cranial) arteritis as characterized by severe headache, malaise, jaw claudication and visual symptoms is a well recognized clinical entity (Horton, Magarth and Brown, 1932; Hutchinson, 1890; Healey, 1977; Harrison and Bevan, 1967. Recently, it has been noted that many non-cranial vessels are also affected. This widespread involvement gives rise to well kn...

OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency of occurrence and characteristics of head-and-neck swelling (HNS) in temporal (giant cell) arteritis (TA). METHODS We analyzed the charts of patients with HNS retrieved from a single department series of 260 consecutive patients with TA and reviewed the published French-English literature. Patients with a swelling limited to the temporal fossa were excluded...

The possible role of the eosinophil and its cytotoxic granule proteins in the vascular lesions seen in temporal arteritis was elucidated. Sixteen sections of biopsy specimens from arteria temporalis showing giant cell arteritis were stained for eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) by polyclonal antibodies and the immunoperoxidase method. Activated eosinophils were identified by monoclonal antibodi...