ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2744 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Segolene Perrineau1, Romain Paule2, Pierre Charles3, Martine GAYRAUD4, Benjamin Terrier1,5, Loïc Guillevin1, Luc Mouthon1,5 and Alexis Régent2,5, 1Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Université Paris Descartes, PARIS, France, 2Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, 3Department of Internal Medicine, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France, 4Department of Internal Medicine, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, PARIS, France, 5Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR 8104, PARIS, France
Background/Purpose: Giant-cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common primary large-vessel vasculitis affecting patients over 50 yr. Despite frequent and severe adverse events (AEs), glucocorticoids (GCs)…