A 78-year-old man was referred for an ultrasound of his right eye to evaluate a small choroidal nevus. He also mentioned almost total loss of vision in his left eye over the past several days. His ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At the Congress on Controversies in Ophthalmology, Lee and Susan Mollan, MBChB, FRCOphth, PhD, debated this ...
An 88-year-old woman was referred urgently by rheumatology to our neuro-ophthalmology clinic due to “going blind” in her left eye starting 3 weeks before presentation in the setting of very prominent ...
Aims We present our preliminary experience with the use of ultrasound in aiding the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA). Schmidt et alhave previously described a hypoechoic or ‘halo’ effect ...
Temporal artery ultrasound alone was sufficient to accurately diagnose giant cell arteritis (GCA) in over half of patients in a new prospective study. The findings provide further evidence that ...
Temporal artery biopsy has been the standard for diagnosing giant cell arteritis (GCA), but vascular ultrasound, a procedure that's less invasive, less time-intensive, less expensive, and more ...
A new study presented for the first time today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2014), shows that cranial ultrasound has a greater sensitivity than temporal artery ...
One of the earliest and best done trials of methotrexate in GCA was in 2002 and enrolled 98 patients, temporal artery biopsy proven (about 80%), who were started on prednisone and methotrexate (15 ...
A new study shows that cranial ultrasound has a greater sensitivity than temporal artery biopsy, and a comparable specificity in the diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis. A new study presented for the ...
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