Diagnostic Study of Temporal Arteritis

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Temporal Arteritis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01130857

0123-09-TLV

Details and patient eligibility

About

Despite a large and growing body of knowledge concerning the diagnosis of temporal arteritis, this potentially crippling disease still requires pathological diagnosis in practically every case. It seems likely that a correctly estimated clinical probability could help in evaluating imaging results in a way that might safely obviate temporal biopsy in a large segment of suspect cases.

With this aim in view, we intend to identify useful clinical items and integrate them in an appropriate diagnostic pathway.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients suspected of temporal arteritis and referred by their physicians to biopsy of a temporal artery.

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy; age > 80 or < 18; unable to answer study questions