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Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis

Dr. Ann Marie Kumfer @AnnKumfer

#GiantCell #Temporal #Arteritis #Diagnosis #Management #GCA #rheumatology
Giant Cell (Temporal ... ) Arteritis Dr ... #Arteritis #Diagnosis ... #Management #GCA ... #rheumatology
Temporal (Giant cell) Arteritis 
Risk Factors:
 • Age (almost never occurs before age 50) 
Clinical:
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Temporal (Giant ... cell) Arteritis ... before age 50) Clinical ... #GiantCell #Arteritis ... #Diagnosis #Rheumatology
Clinical Disease Characteristics and Suggested Algorithm for Diagnostic Evaluation of Patients With Symptoms of Polymyalgia Rheumatica

#Diagnosis
Clinical Disease ... Algorithm for Diagnostic ... #Rheumatology # ... Rheumatica #GiantCell #Temporal ... #Arteritis
Approach to Joint Pain

History:
Is the pain from:
	• Joint
	• Adjacent bursa
	• Tendon
	• Ligament
	• Bone
	• Muscle
	• Referred from
• Inflammatory arthritis ... Noninflammatory arthritis ... with rheumatoid arthritis ... oxalate Infectious Arthritis ... #arthritis
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
Giant cell arteritis ... ) Giant cell arteritis ... Diagnosis = clinical ... Arteritis: Often ... arteritis: jaw
Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) - Recognition of giant cell arteritis (GCA)

1) Is visual loss caused
of giant cell arteritis ... Clinical manifestations ... ESR and/or CRP Temporal ... GiantCellArteritis #GCA #Rheumatology ... Ophthalmology #Diagnosis
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
myocarditis, coronary arteritis ... SLE, Reactive arthritis ... Ocular melanoma • Arthritis ... SLE, Reactive Arthritis ... Recurrent and chronic arthritis-Azathioprine
Rheumatoid Arthritis Summary
Overview: chronic, inflammatory symmetric polyarthritis involving small joints of hands/feet, knees, shoulders
Signs & Symptoms:
Rheumatoid Arthritis ... Diagnosis: CLINICAL ... #Rheumatoid #Arthritis ... #diagnosis #management ... #rheumatology
Adult-Onset Still's Disease
Clinical triad: Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis, Skin rash ± odynophagia
+ Biological inflammation: Increased neutrophils, Hyperferritinemia, decreased
Still's Disease Clinical ... Fever, Arthralgia/arthritis ... Differential Diaqnoses ... #management #treatment ... #rheumatology
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
juvenile idiopathic arthritis ... juvenile idiopathic arthritis ... Activation #Syndrome #Diagnosis ... #Management #Hematology ... #Rheumatology