Abstracts tagged "Giant cell arteritis and thyroid"

Abstract Number: 2765 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Thyroid Artery Involvement Detected By Colour-Doppler Ultrasonography in an Incipient, Single Centre Giant Cell Arteritis Cohort
Rok Jese, Ziga Rotar, Matija Tomsic and Alojzija Hočevar, Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Background/Purpose: The inflammation of thyroid arteries (ThA) is not commonly considered and investigated in giant cell arteritis (GCA). We aimed to estimate the frequency of…