Longitudinal expression profiling of CD4+ and CD8+ cells in patients with active to quiescent giant cell arteritis

• Main Authors: Elisabeth De Smit (Author), Samuel W. Lukowski (Author), Lisa Anderson (Author), Anne Senabouth (Author), Kaisar Dauyey (Author), Sharon Song (Author), Bruce Wyse (Author), Lawrie Wheeler (Author), Christine Y. Chen (Author), Khoa Cao (Author), Amy Wong Ten Yuen (Author), Neil Shuey (Author), Linda Clarke (Author), Isabel Lopez Sanchez (Author), Sandy S. C. Hung (Author), Alice Pébay (Author), David A. Mackey (Author), Matthew A. Brown (Author), Alex W. Hewitt (Author), Joseph E. Powell (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common form of vasculitis affecting elderly people. It is one of the few true ophthalmic emergencies but symptoms and signs are variable thereby making it a challenging disease to diagnose. A temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard to co...