Prevalence and characteristics of subclinical giant cell arteritis in polymyalgia rheumatica.
Eugenio de MiguelPierluigi MacchioniEdoardo ConticiniCorrado CampochiaroRositsa KaralilovaSara MontiCristina PonteGiulia KlinowskiIrene Monjo-HenryPaolo FalsettiZguro BatalovAlessandro TomelleriAlojzija HocevarPublished in: Rheumatology (Oxford, England) (2023)
More than a fifth of the pure PMR patients had ultrasound findings consistent with subclinical GCA. This specific subset of patients showed a predilection for extracranial artery involvement. The optimal screening strategy to assess the presence of vasculitis in PMR remains to be determined.