Introduction: Juvenile temporal arteritis (JTA) is a recently-described and little-known inflammatory disease and its etiology is undetermined. Less than forty cases have been published. This paper is aimed at reporting the largest JTA series and to compare it to literature data to better evaluate its characteristics at diagnosis, its evolution and treatment options.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate the clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with systemic vasculitis associated with temporal artery involvement.
Methods: From a cohort of 120 patients fulfilling American College of Rheumatology criteria for temporal arteritis, we retrospectively identified 7 patients with systemic necrotizing vasculitis associated with histological temporal arteritis.
Results: Among the 7 patients, 2 had classic polyarteritis nodosa, one had unclassified systemic vasculitis, one had Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), and 3 had microscopic polyangiitis.