In a 2001 meta-analysis that included 941 biopsy proven cases of GCA, 4% of those with positive biopsies had "normal" ESRs. [6] Therefore, the absence of these markers cannot completely exclude ...

Longitudinal Study of GCA. Patients enrolled were over the age of 50 years and met the 1990 American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for GCA13 or had evidence of large-vessel ...

† Those without notes are either nonspecific or give too many clues of the diseases that cannot be listed. ALT: Alanine aminotransferase; AST: Aspartate aminotransferase; FDG PET-CT ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — Research has shown that a potential new targeted therapy for childhood brain cancer is effective in infiltrating and killing tumor cells in ... How Healthy Stem Cells Turn Into ...

Health care systems that adopted a higher volume of telehealth services less frequently used several low-value screening and diagnostic tests, according to results of a cohort study published in ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — Scientists have developed an innovative solar-powered method to transform sewage sludge -- a by-product of wastewater treatment -- into green hydrogen for clean energy and single ...

Acute aortic intramural hematoma (IMH) is a relatively uncommon but potentially life-threatening aortic disease that can occur primarily in hypertensive and atherosclerotic patients. The course of IMH ...