Giant cell arteritis: suspect it, treat it promptly.
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 21460132.
- Also identified by DOI 10.3949/ccjm.78a.10131.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
Giant cell arteritis is the most common form of vasculitis affecting older people, and the diagnosis should be considered in older patients who present with the new onset of headache, visual dysfunction, polymyalgia rheumatica, or systemic inflammatory symptoms. Physicians should be familiar with its variety of clinical presentations and the abnormal laboratory findings associated with it.