A common medication already used for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis is effective for patients with giant ...

In giant cell arteritis, immune cells react against blood vessels and make them inflamed. Doctors don't know what triggers this, but you're more likely to get it if you're: Over 50; ...

Both polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) present with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations and almost exclusively occur in the population aged over 50 years. After ...

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common form of vasculitis in the older adult population. There are variable clinical presentations of this entity and no perfect diagnostic test, often making ...

Among patients included in the study population, crude annual incidence rates for biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis were 2.9 per 100,000 for black individuals and 4.2 per 100,000 for white ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for AbbVie’s 15mg Rinvoq (upadacitinib) to treat adults with giant cell arteritis (GCA). The approval follows the recent marketing ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Giant cell arteritis, also known as temporal arteritis, is a less common condition where people get inflammation of the arteries that go to the head and neck.

Nearly half of patients with giant cell arteritis who received upadacitinib while tapering steroids achieved remission from weeks 12 through 52 in a phase 3 trial, according to a press release ...

Temporal arteritis, or giant cell arteritis, is a vascular condition that causes headaches and pain when the arteries in the head become inflamed. What causes it is unclear, but medical care is ...

AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved RINVOQ® (upadacitinib), 15 mg, once daily, for the treatment of adults with giant cell arteritis (GCA ...

Source Reference: Goulabchand R, et al "Burden, causes and outcomes of hospitalization in patients with giant cell arteritis: a US national cohort study" Arthritis Care Res 2022; DOI: 10.1002/acr ...

Histology from the biopsy can be diagnostic up to 2 weeks or more after initiation of corticosteroids therapy. ... giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most frequent vasculitis in the elderly.