Giant Cell Arteritis

Giant Cell Arteritis (Polymyalgia Rheumatica)
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Giant Cell Arteritis (Temporal Arteritis)
The common symptoms of giant cell arteritis are headache, tenderness over one or both sides of the forehead, and feeling unwell.

What is giant cell arteritis?
Arteritis (say: 'ar-ter-eye-tiss') is a condition in which the arteries become inflamed (swell). Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body.

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The disease is caused by inflammation of some of the arteries in the body. This causes the blood flow in certain areas to be reduced or blocked completely.

polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) - of which giant cell arteritis is the more severe form of the illness.

Giant cell arteritis
Around one in five people with polymyalgia rheumatica go on to develop a more serious condition called giant cell arteritis, which causes inflammation in the body's medium and large arteries, resulting in symptoms such as: ...

Giant cell arteritis - (GCA)
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Giant cell arteritis is a condition which causes inflammation on the inside of some arteries (blood vessels).

Giant cell arteritis is inflammation of the arteries that can cause sudden blindness in one or both eyes.
Elderly white females from northern European backgrounds are at increased risk, for reasons unknown.

In giant cell arteritis (say 'ar-tuh-RY-tus'), inflammation occurs in the blood vessels that carry blood up through the neck to the head. It mostly affects the arteries that carry blood to the eyes, temple, and jaw.

Giant Cell Arteritis
Giant cell arteritis (ar-ter-I-tis) usually affects the temporal artery, an artery on the side of your head. This condition also is called temporal arteritis.

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GCA must be treated before blindness occurs. The blindness can not be reversed. Treatment is usually a high dose of corticosteroid medication for about one month. This is then tapered to a smaller dose for maintenance therapy.

Giant cell arteritis
Disease causing inflammation of the temporal arteries and other arteries in the head and neck, causing the arteries to narrow, reducing blood flow in the affected areas; may cause persistent headaches and vision loss; ...

Giant cell arteritis: A serious disease characterized by inflammation of the walls of the blood vessels (vasculitis). The vessels affected by the inflammation are the arteries (hence the name "arteritis").

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a systemic vasculitis of large and medium arteries that usually, though not exclusively, involves the temporal artery. The diagnosis should be considered in every patient over the age of 50 with headache.

Giant cell arteritis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the progressive inflammation of many arteries of the body (panarteritis).

Giant cell arteritis, also known as temporal arteritis and cranial arteritis, is a disorder that results in swelling of arteries in the head (most often the temporal arteries, which are located on the temples on each side of the head), neck, and arms.

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If you have giant cell arteritis, you may lose vision in one eye or, more rarely, in both eyes, especially if treatment is delayed.
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Hellmann DB. Giant cell arteritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, and Takayasu's arteritis. In: Firestein GS, Budd RC, Harris ED Jr., et al, eds. Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2008:chap 81.

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Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and Giant Cell arteritis (GCA) are closely related systemic disorders of an unknown cause that affect mainly elderly people1,3,4.

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Arteritis, temporal: Also called giant cell arteritis or cranial arteritis, this is a serious disease characterized by inflammation of the walls of the blood vessels (vasculitis).

Giant cell arteritis, inflammation of blood vessel walls, affects 10-15 percent of polymyalgia rheumatica patients.

Raynaud's disease in children is extremely rare and is more likely to develop due to an underlying problem such as scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematosus, CREST syndrome, takayasu arteritis and giant cell arteritis among other conditions.

Temporal Arteritis or Giant Cell Arteritis is so called because it is a chronic inflammation of the large arteries, typically the temporal arteries which are in the temple region at the sides of the forehead.

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Certain causes of headaches are unique to the elderly, such as temporal arteritis, also called giant cell arteritis.

Giant cell arteritis is seen almost exclusively in those over 50 years old, but may occasionally occur in younger people. It is rare in people of African descent. There is some evidence that it runs in families.

Between 10% and 15% of people with PMR also have a condition called temporal arteritis, or giant cell arteritis.

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This causes large cells to be developed in the wall of these infected arteries, hence its alternative name Giant Cell Arteritis.

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An inflammatory disease affecting the medium and large-sized blood vessels involving the temporal arteries of the head. Also sometimes called "Giant cell Arteritis".
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Symptoms of a central retinal artery or branch occlusion include a sudden, painless loss of vision or decrease in visual field. Some 10% of the cases of a retinal artery occlusion occur because of giant cell arteritis (a chronic vascular disease).

reaction), cancer and other diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Examples of primary vasculitis include Wegener’s granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, polyarteritis nodosa, Takayasu’s arteritis and giant cell arteritis.

This unusual pupillary reflex, also known as "tonic pupil," because it is slow to change, may also be associated with diabetes, alcoholism, a herpes viral infection, or a cranial arterial condition known as giant cell arteritis.

See also: Arteritis, Symptom, Rheum, Myalgia, Headache