Abstracts tagged "steroids and temporal arteritis"

Abstract Number: 898 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Treatment and Outcome of Patients with a Diagnosis of Healed Arteritis on Temporal Artery Biopsy
Daniel Jo¹, Melissa Fazzari², Donald Brand³, Steven E. Carsons⁴ and Elise Belilos¹, ¹Rheumatology, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, ²Biostatistics, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, ³Office of Health Outcomes Research, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology Winthrop-University Hospital, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, NY, USA, Mineola, NY
Background/Purpose: Temporal artery biopsy (TAB) is the gold standard for the diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA), yet is limited by the presence of skip…