The resulting classification criteria should be used, for study purposes, to confirm that someone has giant cell arteritis when a diagnosis of medium- or large-vessel vasculitis has already been made.

46 Validated diagnostic criteria for giant-cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica are not available. The diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica is particularly challenging, since objective and ...

The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) already recommends ultrasound as a first-line diagnostic tool ... EULAR classification criteria for GCA weighs positive TAB or ...

Ultrasound and EULAR classification criteria have the potential ... could be more widely used in the workup and diagnosis of giant cell arteritis,” Bechtold said. Bechtold M.

Explore causes, symptoms and diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis and Temporal Arteritis including headache, vision loss and jaw ...

the GCA diagnosis was unchanged when re-examined 2 years later, according to Guillaume Denis, MD, of Centre Hospitalier Rochefort in France, and colleagues. The 92 patients with negative ...

For the diagnosis of GCA the ACR classification criteria are still used, but are less helpful for classifying GCA without temporal arteritis.