Is the halo always holy? Glucocorticoid impact on detecting cranial large-vessel arteritis

Early improvement of radiological signs of large-vessel inflammation in giant cell arteritis upon glucocorticoid treatment.

Severe hypertension with large-vessel arteritis.

Small-vessel arteritis is associated with hypertension because the commonest varieties, granulomatous vasculitis with polyangitis and microscopic polyangitis with antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies, usually cause necrotizing glomerular disease. Medium vessel vasculitis, such as polyarteritis nodosa and Kawasaki disease, are less regularly associated with hypertension. Large-vessel vascul...

Effect of Glucocorticoid Treatment on Computed Tomography Angiography Detected Large-Vessel Inflammation in Giant-Cell Arteritis. A Prospective, Longitudinal Study

Computed tomography angiography (CTA) detects signs of large-vessel vasculitis (LVV) in about 67.5% of patients with giant-cell arteritis (GCA) at the time of diagnosis and early aortic dilatation in 15%. The outcome of CTA-findings of LVV upon glucocorticoid treatment has not been prospectively evaluated. The aim of our study was to prospectively assess glucocorticoid-induced changes in CTA fi...

Large vessel arteritis: a diagnostic challenge in the elderly.

Takayasu arteritis is a rare form of chronic inflammatory arteritis affecting large vessels, predominantly the aorta and its main branches. Those at highest risk are adolescent girls and women in their 2nd and 3rd decade of life, and this disease is most frequently seen in Japan, Southeast Asia, India, and Mexico. An elderly woman with Takayasu arteritis of late onset, an extremely unusual diso...

Concise Report Prognosis of large-vessel giant cell arteritis

Objective. The prognosis of large-vessel GCA (LV-GCA) has not yet been investigated. How does it compare to GCA without arm vasculitis (GCA controls)? Methods. Charts of 53 LV-GCA patients and 53 GCA controls were reviewed following a predetermined protocol. Telephone interviews of patients or their primary care physicians were conducted. Forty LV-GCA patients underwent follow-up duplex ultraso...