Talk:Temporal arteritis

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Some help on pathological diagnosis of steroid-treated TA: JFW |  T@lk  16:53, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Good one JFW, reaffirms current view to get on with starting a patient on steroids, and not wait the extra couple days to arrange a biopsy out of fear might prevent a histological diagnosis being confirmed. Immunological markers interesting, but I wonder how many of them a typical District General Hospital has available ? David Ruben Talk 17:36, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Lancet
- Lancet review. JFW | T@lk  13:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Course and prognosis?
should be included in every disease state article.Toyokuni3 (talk) 00:52, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

ACR criteria
I recently attended a talk that suggested a diagnostic pathway that relied heavily on the 1990 ACR criteria (found here - ). These are said to have high sensitivity and specificity. Basically, it recommends a biopsy only if there are two other criteria present: any less and a theoretically positive biopsy would still not lead to 3/5 criteria being met. Also, if there are three other criteria already present, a negative biopsy would still lead to 3-4/5 positive criteria and therefore not greatly alter the decision whether to treat. Sadly I have no access to the notes I took during that talk, but this seems to be the gist of it. JFW | T@lk  06:18, 12 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Pubmed search for Major subject headings. Numerous reviews, but the first one free is in 2003... JFW | T@lk  06:46, 12 November 2008 (UTC)