Color duplex sonography (CDS) of the temporal arteries should be performed before temporal-artery biopsy (TAB; the gold-standard diagnostic method) in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA), say ...

Temporal artery biopsy remains the gold standard for diagnosing GCA. Patients require an individualized steroid tapering schedule to minimize side effects. Physicians caring for these patients ...

Patients with predominantly cranial vs isolated extracranial GCA phenotypes present with different patterns of arterial involvement on 18F-FDG PET-CT scans.

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 ...