| Identifier |
20150224_nanos_posters_231 |
| Title |
Discordance Rates in Healing-Healed Arteritis in Temporal Artery Biopsies |
| Creator |
Sangsu Han; Mustafa S. Kapasi; Vivek R. Patel; James P. Farmer; Paula L. Blanco; Danah H. Albreiki |
| Affiliation |
(SH) (MK) (DA) Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; (VP) Department of Ophthalmology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; (JF) (PB) Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| Subject |
Giant Cell Arteritis; Temporal Artery Biopsy |
| Description |
Temporal artery biopsy (TAB) is the gold standard diagnostic modality for giant cell arteritis (GCA). Since bilateral positivity for active GCA is 90+%, unilateral TAB is considered standard of care for diagnosing GCA. (1,2) However, GCA can present with active, healing/healed and no injury in a segmental uneven distribution along the extracranial carotid artery tree. Healing/healed arterial injuries are important to identify since they are usually treated as active GCA. We studied the discordance rate for healing/healed arterial injury in bilateral TAB to verify whether unilateral biopsies would render as high diagnostic yield as they do in active GCA. |
| Date |
2015-02-24 |
| Language |
eng |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Type |
Text |
| Source |
2015 North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting |
| Collection |
Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu |
| Publisher |
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah |
| Holding Institution |
North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Association. NANOS Executive Office 5841 Cedar Lake Road, Suite 204, Minneapolis, MN 55416 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s68d333v |
| Context URL |
The NANOS Annual Meeting Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/NAM/toc/ |
| Setname |
ehsl_novel_nam |
| ID |
185027 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68d333v |
