[Current Recommendations for Diagnostics in Giant Cell Arteritis]

Abstract

In Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA), a timely diagnosis is required to avoid severe complications such as blindness or structural vascular damage. The heterogeneous symptoms are mainly due to local and systemic inflammatory processes. Diagnostics are based on increased inflammation parameters in the laboratory, imaging, in which color-coded duplex sonography (FKDS), high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT) or CT angiography (CTA) and ¹⁸F fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography with CT (FDG-PET-CT) have become established, as well as histopathological findings in temporal artery biopsy.