- ►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
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C Salvarani, F Cantini, L Boiardi, GG Hunder - Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2004 - Elsevier In the past, PMR was considered a manifestation of giant cell arteritis (GCA) or
a variant of elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis (EORA). The current diagnostic
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- ►annals.org [PDF] FB Karassa, MI Matsagas, WA Schmidt, J … - Annals of internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians Purpose: To determine the diagnostic performance of ultra- sonography for
giant-cell arteritis. Data Sources: Studies published up to April 2004 in the
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SS Hayreh, B Zimmerman - Ophthalmologica, 2003 - content.karger.com Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the prime medical emergency in ophthalmology
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- ►oxfordjournals.org M Brodmann, RW Lipp, A Passath, G Seinost, E … - Rheumatology, 2004 - Br Soc Rheumatology Methods. During a period of 10 months, 22 consecutive patients with the clinical
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CP Bleeker-Rovers, SJH Bredie, JWM Van … - Who should be taking the blood pressure? 304 - njmonline.nl ABSTRACT Background: F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) accumulates in inflammatory
cells due to an increased metabolic rate. Therefore, FDG positron emission
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P Seo, JH Stone - Arthritis and Rheumatism-Arthritis Care and Research, 2004 - uth.tmc.edu Introduction The vasculitides and their treatments pose great risks for patients
and difficult challenges for physicians. Clinicians are confronted with the task
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JH Stone, LH Calabrese, GS Hoffman, CD … - Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 2001 - Elsevier Since the two publications of Kussmaul and Maier on this index case of
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