Fig 1.
High-resolution vessel-wall MRI of temporal arteries in a patient with biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis.
Seventy-two-year-old man with a positive diagnosis of GCA on post-contrast three-dimensional fat-saturated turbo spin echo high resolution vessel-wall imaging dedicated for visualizing the extracranial artery wall. Multiplanar reconstruction (left images) and axial plane (right image) showing a marked wall thickening (> 0.7 mm) and strong mural enhancement with perivascular inflammatory infiltration of temporal arteries (arrows).
Table 1.
Population demographic and clinic-biological data.
Table 2.
Patients outcome.
Table 3.
Medico-economic analysis: hospitalization pattern, laboratory results and imaging.