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Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis: Clinical findings and Complications
Signs/Symptoms: 
 - Headache (usually constant, superimposed by waves
Giant Cell (Temporal ... Complications Signs/Symptoms ... palpation - Temporal ... Stroke or TIA-like symptoms ... #GiantCell #Temporal
Temporal (Giant cell) Arteritis 
Risk Factors:
 • Age (almost never occurs before age 50) 
Clinical:
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Temporal (Giant ... Constitutional symptoms ... vision loss #Temporal
Clinical Disease Characteristics and Suggested Algorithm for Diagnostic Evaluation of Patients With Symptoms of Polymyalgia Rheumatica

#Diagnosis
Patients With Symptoms ... Rheumatica #GiantCell #Temporal
Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis: Pathogenesis and investigations
Risk Factors:
 - Unclear environmental triggers (may be viral, not
Giant Cell (Temporal ... old; F>M Signs/Symptoms ... #GiantCell #Temporal ... Diagnosis #Signs #Symptoms
Headache Syndromes 
Sudden onset of pain - "Thunder clap" with any decreased mentation, any positive focal
with stroke-like symptoms ... Forehead and/or temporal ... pain - Tender temporal ... arteries • Temporal ... Syndromes #diagnosis #symptoms
Approach to Headaches - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Red flags (PHANTOMS):
 • Pattern change, progressively worse, papilledema
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Neurological deficits • Temporal ... ) • Systemic symptoms ... meningitis) • Temporal
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
GCA versus Temporal ... hand, classic temporal ... Role of temporal ... absence of visual symptoms ... #Signs #Symptoms
Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) - Recognition of giant cell arteritis (GCA)

1) Is visual loss caused
2) Typical symptoms ... • Cephalic symptoms ... Constitutional symptoms ... ESR and/or CRP Temporal
Causes of Dizziness - Vertigo - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
True Vertigo - Illusion of Rotary Movement
Peripheral Vestibular
vomiting, auditory symptoms ... Otitis Media • Temporal ... Imbalance, neurologic symptoms
13 Dangerous Causes of Headache:
 - subarachnoid hemorrhage: family history, PCKD, known berry aneurysm, sudden and
vision, red eye - temporal ... arteritis: elderly, temporal ... shoulder girdle symptoms ... neurologic signs/symptoms