TEMPORAL arteritis is the name given to a local and systemic symptom complex that attacks patients between the ages of 55 and 85 years. It is a benign self-limiting disease, insidious in development, with a course lasting over several months. As the name implies, a very regular feature is an inflammation of the temporal arteries of the scalp, but the disease is not confined to these vessels and...

Dina El Demellawy, Ahmed Nasr, Salem Alowami University of Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, William Osler Health Care-Brampton Civic Hospital, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brampton, Ontario, Canada; University of Toronto, Department of Surgery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; McMaster University, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Hamilton, Ontario, C...

Giant cell arteritis is an inflammatory vasculopathy that preferentially affects medium-sized and large arteries. A viral cause has been suspected but not confirmed in polymyalgia rheumatica and giant-cell arteritis. We report the case of a 81-year-old female who suffered from chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection and developed giant cell temporal arteritis.

INTRODUCTION Giant cell arteritis is an emergency requiring prompt diagnosis and treatment. Superficial temporal artery biopsy is the gold diagnostic standard. Complications are few and infrequent; however, facial nerve injury has been reported, leaving an untoward cosmetic outcome. This case report is to the best of our knowledge only the fourth one presented in the available literature so far...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with systemic vasculitis associated with temporal artery involvement. METHODS From a cohort of 120 patients fulfilling American College of Rheumatology criteria for temporal arteritis, we retrospectively identified 7 patients with systemic necrotizing vasculitis associated with histological temporal arteritis. RES...

The major manifestations of giant cell arteritis have been well described. Pulmonary manifestations, however, are rare. We report the case of a 75 year old woman with temporal arteritis, presenting with atypical manifestations, i.e. nodular pulmonary lesions, dry cough, rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and otitis with hearing loss. We conclude that overlapping features of giant cell arteritis and Wege...

Hutchinson (1890) described a man aged 80 years who was prevented from wearing his hat by painful, inflamed temporal arteries. Horton, Magath, and Brown (1932) described two more patients and called the syndrome temporal arteritis. Originally thought to be a localized, self-limiting, and benign disorder, inflammation of the temporal arteries is often part of a widespread arteritis (Cooke, Cloak...

Temporal arteritis is a common cause of blindness. Prompt steroid treatment limits unilateral visual loss while protecting the contralateral eye. Established blindness is irreversible. We report a case of temporal arteritis in which an eye with no light perception secondary to an arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy regained 6/6 vision.

A retrospective study was made of 96 patients diagnosed as cranial arteritis of whom 32 were accepted using strict clinical criteria or a positive temporal artery biopsy. Unusual presentations of fever, psychiatric illness, headache-free patients and a 'normal' ESR are described. The recognition of these variations is important in the early diagnosis of temporal arteritis.