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Questions discussed in this category

What is your approach to the treatment of idiopathic intracranial hypertension with transverse sinus stenosis?
Do you favor specific medications or surgical interventions?
3 Answers available
Do you try to treat the acidosis resulting from acetazolamide in patients with IIH?
1 Answer available
Do you ever use ocular ultrasound in evaluation of papilledema?
1 Answer available
What is your approach to the diagnosis and management of optic chiasmitis in systemic lupus erythematosus?
And have you ever seen it occur in isolation without any other manifestations of SLE? 
1 Answer available
How do you determine when to wean patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) off of acetazolamide?
2 Answers available
What is your approach to the treatment of visual snow syndrome?
1 Answer available
How would you interpret a temporal artery biopsy demonstrating focal chronic inflammation in the adventitia associated with small adventitial vessels and nerves without inflammation of the intima and media and without giant cells?
2 Answers available
In what conditions can you see roving eye movements?
1 Answer available
Can giant cell arteritis present with a partial cranial neuropathy?
3 Answers available
Do you always perform temporal artery biopsy in patients with positive inflammatory markers and high clinical suspicion of GCA?
2 Answers available
Is either ESR or CRP more sensitive or specific for the diagnosis of GCA?
Additionally, what is the current role for temporal artery ultrasound in workup for GCA?
3 Answers available


Papers discussed in this category

Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism, 2012-06
Utility of erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis.
Arthritis Rheumatol, 2021 Jul 08
2021 American College of Rheumatology/Vasculitis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Giant Cell Arteritis and Takayasu Arteritis.
Ann Rheum Dis, 2019 Jul 03
2018 Update of the EULAR recommendations for the management of large vessel vasculitis.
Mayo Clin Proc,
My Treatment Approach to Giant Cell Arteritis.
Contemp Neurol Ser,
The diagnosis of stupor and coma.
Open access rheumatology : research and reviews, 2016
Polymyalgia rheumatica: observations of disease evolution without corticosteroid treatment.
Medicine, 2016 Feb
Description and Validation of Histological Patterns and Proposal of a Dynamic Model of Inflammatory Infiltration in Giant-cell Arteritis.
Histopathology, 2023 Aug 08
Age-related histopathological findings in temporal arteries.
Cardiovascular pathology : the official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology, 2023 Sep 06
Consensus statement on the processing, interpretation and reporting of temporal artery biopsy for arteritis.
The British journal of ophthalmology, 1997 Feb
Successful treatment of optic neuropathy in association with systemic lupus erythematosus using intravenous cyclophosphamide.

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