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 ...
PARIS — For the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis, cranial ultrasound is more sensitive than temporal artery biopsy, new research shows. "Giant cell arteritis can cause serious problems but is very ...
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 ...
Temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis of GCA and is desirable in all cases. Other tests being used as surrogate imaging are: ultrasonography, fluorodeoxyglucose PET (FDG-PET), ...
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 ...
Positive findings with color Doppler ultrasound were enough to diagnose giant cell arteritis (GCA) accurately without need for confirmation with temporal artery biopsy (TAB), a prospective study ...
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. It ...
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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