title: Giant cell arteritis: suspect it, treat it promptly.
abstract: Giant cell arteritis is the most common form of vasculitis affecting older people, and the diagnosis should be considered in older patients who present with the new onset of headache, visual dysfunction, polymyalgia rheumatica, or systemic inflammatory symptoms. Physicians should be familiar with its variety of clinical presentations and the abnormal laboratory findings associated with it.
authors: Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Disease, Cleveland Clinic, OH 44195, USA. villaa@ccf.org
authors: Alexandra
authors: A
authors: Villa-Forte
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D013700:Giant Cell Arteritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D005938:Glucocorticoids