Review Article
The Thromboembolic Risk in Giant Cell Arteritis: A Critical Review of the Literature
Table 2
Criteria for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (American College of Rheumatology, 1990) (mod. from Hunder et al. [
31]).
| Criteria | Definition |
| Age | Onset of the symptoms at age 50 or older | Recent onset of severe headache | Onset of a new type of pain located in the head | Anomalies of the temporal artery | Pain in the palpation of the temporal artery or reduced pulsatility, not connected to atherosclerosis of the cervical arteries | Increase of ESR | ESR > 40 mm/h | Typical abnormalities of the biopsy of the temporal artery | Vasculitis typically characterized by an infiltrate of mononuclear cells or inflammation of granuloma with multinuclear giant cells |
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