- ►nejm.org C Salvarani, F Cantini, GG Hunder - The Lancet, 2008 - Elsevier Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant-cell arteritis are closely related disorders
that affect people of middle age and older. They frequently occur together. Both
are syndromes of unknown cause, but genetic and environmental factors might ... Cited by 390 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 28 versions
GG Hunder - Medical Clinics of North America, 1997 - Elsevier Polymyalgia rheumatica 6 is characterized by aching and morning stiffness in the
proximal portions of the extremities and torso. Definitions have commonly
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- ►annals.org [PDF] CM Weyand, JJ Goronzy - Annals of internal medicine, 2003 - Am Coll Physicians Giant-cell arteritis is an immune-mediated disease characterized by
granulomatous infiltrates in the wall of medium-size and large arteries. The
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A Brack, V Martinez-Taboada, A Stanson, JJ … - Arthritis Care & Research - interscience.wiley.com Seventy-four case patients with subclavian/axillary GCA diagnosed by angiography
and 74 control patients with temporal artery biopsy-proven GCA without large
vessel involvement matched for the date of first diagnosis were identified. ... Cited by 134 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►ufl.edu [PDF] CC Foundation, O Cleveland, M Clinic, M … - Arthritis Care & Research - interscience.wiley.com This was a multicenter, randomized, double-blind study. Over 4 years, 16 centers
from the International Network for the Study of Systemic Vasculitides enrolled
patients with unequivocal GCA. The initial treatment was 1 mg/kg/day ( 60 ... Cited by 130 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
CM Weyand, N Tetzlaff, J Bjornsson, A Brack … - Arthritis Care & Research - interscience.wiley.com Methods. Twenty-three patients with typical histomorphologic findings of GCA
were grouped according to the presence or absence of jaw claudication and/or
visual abnormalities, fever, concomitant polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), and ... Cited by 119 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
CM Weyand, JW Fulbright, GG Hunder, JM … - Arthritis Care & Research - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to
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… GG Hunder, TJH Christianson, RL McClelland … - Arthritis Care & Research - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to
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CM Weyand, JJ Goronzy - Arthritis Care & Research - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to
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- ►nih.gov [PDF] ST Nikkari, M Höyhtyä, J Isola, T Nikkari - The American journal of pathology, 1996 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Inflammation precedes erosion and rupture of atherosclerotic atheromas and
aneurysms. In- flammatory infiltrates of macrophages have been shown to secrete
proteolytic enzymes, in- cluding matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), that ... Cited by 91 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
