Giant cell arteritis (GCA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) are two interrelated
inflammatory diseases affecting patients above 50 years of age. Patients with GCA suffer …

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common vasculitis affecting people older than 50 years.
The last decades have shed new light on the clinical paradigm of this condition, expanding …

Background Assessing inflammatory disease activity in large vessel vasculitis (LVV) can be
challenging by conventional measures. Objectives We aimed to investigate somatostatin …

Objectives To evaluate the accuracy of PET/CT and of PET vascular activity score (PETVAS)
in assessing disease activity and the ability of PETVAS in predicting relapses in a large …

Systemic vasculitides comprise a group of autoimmune diseases affecting blood vessels,
including large vessel vasculitis (LVV) and medium-sized vessel vasculitis such as giant cell …

Takayasu arteritis (TAK) is a less common large vessel vasculitis where histopathology of
involved arteries is difficult to access except during open surgical procedures. Assessment …

For years, clinicians and researchers working on giant cell arteritis have been battling with
the conundrum of a disease that displays a short-term steroid responsiveness but is …

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a granulomatous large-vessel vasculitis that affects adults above
50 years of age. In GCA, circulating monocytes are recruited to the inflamed arteries. With …

Arthritis and other rheumatic disorders are very frequent in the general population and
responsible for a huge physical and disability burden to affected patients as well as a major …

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