Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a medical emergency ... Epitheloid cells in the granuloma cause injury to the arterial wall by secreting matrix metalloproteinases and reactive oxygen and nitrogen ...

Giant cell arteritis, also called temporal arteritis, is a disease that causes your arteries -- blood vessels that carry oxygen from your heart to the rest of your body -- to become inflamed.

SHREVEPORT, La. - Giant cell arteritis, also known as temporal arteritis, is a less common condition where people get inflammation of the arteries that go to the head and neck. Symptoms include ...

More information: Cristina Ponte et al, 2022 American College of Rheumatology/EULAR classification criteria for giant cell arteritis, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (2022). DOI: 10.1136/ard-2022 ...

Temporal arteritis is also known as "giant cell arteritis." Polymyalgia rheumatica generally affects people over age 50. The average age of patients with PMR is 70. The disease is more common ...

Temporal arteritis is also known as cranial arteritis or giant cell arteritis. The condition is a type of vasculitis. According to a review of research published in 2021, the overall incidence of ...

In this Healio Video Perspective, Andrew G. Lee, MD, discusses whether temporal artery ultrasound can be used in place of ...

Findings showed 46.4% of patients treated with upadacitinib 15mg achieved sustained remission compared with 29.0% of those who received placebo. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...

for the treatment of adults with giant cell arteritis (GCA). 1 This comes after the European Commission recently granted marketing authorization of RINVOQ for the treatment of GCA in adult patients.

AbbVie has picked up another indication for its JAK inhibitor Rinvoq in the EU, becoming the first approved oral therapy for giant cell arteritis (GCA), an autoimmune disease affecting the arteries.

AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) announced Friday that an expert panel of the EU drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), ...

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a medical emergency ... disease-modifying therapy is indicated in relapsing disease. Granuloma formation within media. CD4 + T cells secrete IFN-γ and TNF-α ...