Abstracts tagged "giant cell arteritis and vessel vasculitis"

Abstract Number: 820 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Incidence And Seasonal Variation Of Biopsy-Proven Giant Cell Arteritis – Revisited: A 20-Year Population-Based Study From Sweden
Pavlos Stamatis¹, Carl Turesson², Jan-Åke Nilsson² and Aladdin Mohammad³, ¹Clinical Sciences, Rheumatology Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ²Rheumatology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, ³Rheumatology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Background/Purpose: To investigate the incidence rate and seasonal variation of biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis (GCA) in a well-defined population in southern Sweden. Methods: The study…