SAN DIEGO — Diagnosing giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica can “fascinate” and cause “trepidation” in equal measure due to their similarities and complications, said a speaker at the 2024 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West.
“These diseases fascinate us as clinicians,” Leonard Calabrese, DO, RJ Fasenmyer chair of clinical immunology at the Cleveland Clinic, and chief medical editor of Healio Rheumatology, told attendees. “We love to see these patients, but at the same time we have trepidation.”
According to Calabrese, that