Systemic vasculitides are heterogeneous disabling diseases characterised by chronic
inflammation of the blood vessels potentially leading to tissue destruction and organ failure …

Rheumatologists are increasingly using vascular ultrasound. Several guidelines now
recommend ultrasound as the first diagnostic modality in giant cell arteritis (GCA). The …

Abstract Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) is well known to be a critical ischaemic disease that
requires immediate medical recognition to initiate treatment and where one in five people …

Non-atherosclerotic aortic arch pathologies (NA-AAPs) and anatomical variants are
characterized as rare cardiovascular diseases with a low incidence rate, below 1 case per …

This review overviews the challenges in the assessment of disease activity, damage, and
therapy of Takayasu arteritis (TAK). Recently developed disease activity scores for TAK are …

In the last two decades, advancements in positron emission tomography (PET) technology
have increased the diagnostic accuracy of patients with large-vessel vasculitis (LVV) …

To clarify the risk of tuberculosis (TB) infection in patients with Takayasu arteritis (TAK). In
this study, we conducted a comprehensive search across multiple databases, including …

Objectives To analyse the risk, causes and predictors of mortality in Takayasu arteritis (TAK).
Methods Survival was assessed in a cohort of patients with TAK using Kaplan–Meier curves …

The use of fluorodeoxyglucose–positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) imaging to detect
vascular inflammation is increasingly common in the clinical management of patients with …

Objectives The present study validates the 2022 ACR/European Alliance of Associations for
Rheumatology (EULAR) classification criteria for Takayasu's arteritis (TAK), compared with …