Angiopoietin-2/-1 ratios and MMP-3 levels as an early warning sign for the presence of giant cell arteritis in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica

BACKGROUND: Diagnosing patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) remains difficult. Due to its non-specific symptoms, it is challenging to identify GCA in patients presenting with symptoms of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), which is a more common disease. Also, commonly used acute-phase markers CRP and...

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Autores principales: van Sleen, Yannick, Therkildsen, Philip, Nielsen, Berit Dalsgaard, van der Geest, Kornelis S. M., Hansen, Ib, Heeringa, Peter, Posthumus, Marcel D., Sandovici, Maria, Toonen, Erik J. M., Zijlstra, Jannik, Boots, Annemieke M. H., Hauge, Ellen-Margrethe, Brouwer, Elisabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35255968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13075-022-02754-5

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