Cannabis arteritis (CA) is a major and underdiagnosed cause of peripheral arterial disease in young patients. A 34-year-old man, daily smoker of 20 cigarettes and two cannabis cigarettes for 14 years, ...

Primary central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis is a rare, frequently misdiagnosed condition that affects the brain and ...

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common form of vasculitis in the older adult population. There are variable clinical presentations of this entity and no perfect diagnostic test, often ...

Giant cell arteritis, or GCA, is a condition where arteries in the head and neck become inflamed. It is called ‘giant cell’ because abnormally large cells accumulate in the artery walls.

Background: It has been well documented that Takayasu arteritis (TAK) and ulcerative colitis (UC) coexist in the same patients. HLA-B*52 characterizes the co-occurrence, which is one of the common ...

Objectives Ultrasound of temporal and axillary arteries may reveal vessel wall inflammation in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA). We developed a ultrasound scoring system to quantify the extent ...

Giant cell arteritis is a disease of the blood vessels, usually in the head/scalp and neck. Giant cell arteritis (GCA), or temporal arteritis, is an inflammatory disease affecting the large blood ...

Cerebral arteritis, also known as cerebral vasculitis or central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis, is an inflammation of small and medium-sized arteries in the brain. The cause of cerebral arteritis is ...

In addition to all of this, I started noticing some headaches around my temples, but I thought it could have maybe been related to ear infection. Giant cell arteritis is a rare cause of stroke, ...

Objectives Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is implicated in pathogenesis of giant cell arteritis. We evaluated the efficacy of the GM-CSF receptor antagonist mavrilimumab in ...