Diagnosing Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA): Key Steps You Need to Know! When a patient presents with symptoms like throbbing headache, jaw pain while chewing, scalp pain, blurry vision, and fever, what do you do? ✅ Five ACR Criteria for GCA: Age > 50 Years ESR > 50 mm/hr New-onset headache Temporal artery tenderness Temporal artery biopsy findings Diagnosis: You need 3 out of 5 criteria to make the call. First Lab Tests: ESR and CRP to confirm inflammation. 💉 Empiric Treatment: Start high-dose stero

Giant-cell arteritis causes headaches, vision loss, jaw claudication, and stroke, and it often relapses as glucocorticoids are tapered. New research findings are summarized in this short video. Full study: http://nej.md/2usNi1K Watch more Quick Take videos: http://nej.md/quick-take | The New England Journal of Medicine

15K views · 211 reactions | If you’re tender headed, how do you deal with this? Is it worth it?  Being tender headed with locs must be difficult, the pain can definitely put a lot of people off continuing their journey 沈 The main question is, what ways have you found to deal with it?  : @v.mongare on TT | FreeTheRoots | Facebook