Publications by authors named "D Roig-Vilaseca"
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- Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a complex disease with various symptoms and severity levels, and the study aimed to evaluate its different clinical subsets to improve treatment strategies and reduce complications.
- The study categorized GCA into three phenotypes: cranial, extracranial, and occult, analyzing their association with severe complications and survival rates over time.
- Results indicated that cranial GCA had more severe ischemic complications and visual disturbances, while the occult subset showed potential for higher mortality, highlighting the need for targeted treatment approaches based on these clinical patterns.
Background And Objective: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most frequent systemic vasculitis in adults. In recent years, the usefulness of temporal artery ultrasound (TAUS) as a diagnostic tool to assess the underlying inflammation of the vascular wall during the inflammatory process has been under clinical investigation.
Material And Methods: Observational and descriptive cohort study of 120 TAUS in 60 patients with clinical suspicions of GCA, according to the ACR (American College of Rheumatology) classification criteria.
We aim to confirm previous observations among postmenopausal osteoporotic women who received denosumab in terms of densitometric changes. We performed an observational clinical practice scenario study assessing baseline bone mineral density and its change after 2 years of treatment in postmenopausal osteoporotic women. Most of our patients were severe and had previous fracture and had received several treatments before denosumab initiation.
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