Vasculitis and Giant Cell Arteritis News

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Temporal artery ultrasound and EULAR score are reliable means for diagnosing giant cell arteritis, Mercy Bechtold, MD, said during her presentation at Kiawah Eye.

CLEVELAND — In this video perspective from the Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Dermatology Therapy Update III meeting, Adam Brown, MD, a rheumatologist at the institution, discusses what to look for in leukocytoclastic, or cutaneous, vasculitis.

DESTIN, Fla. — Rheumatologists should consider tapering tocilizumab for patients with giant cell arteritis in remission despite the increased risk for flare, said a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East annual meeting.

DESTIN, Fla. — Treating respiratory and systemic manifestations of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis can be effective despite an incomplete understanding of the disease, said a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.

Incidence of Henoch-Schönlein purpura waned and waxed significantly with the implementation and relaxation of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

All diagnoses of giant cell arteritis made through temporal artery ultrasound were unchanged at 1 month — and at 2 years, for those with available data — in a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

A new metric reliably confirms giant cell arteritis in suspected cases by combining a validated clinical scoring tool with ultrasonography, according to data in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Nearly half of patients with giant cell arteritis who received upadacitinib while tapering steroids achieved remission from weeks 12 through 52 in a phase 3 trial, according to a press release from AbbVie.

Higher scores on a measure of sinonasal symptoms can predict ANCA-associated vasculitis relapse “months to years” ahead of time, according data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

This episode digs into the pathophysiology of urticaria vasculitis from anti-C1q to the story of bradykinin.