British Society for Rheumatology guideline on diagnosis and treatment of giant cell arteritis: executive summary

Affiliations

• ¹ Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, UK.
• ² NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.
• ³ Rheumatology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria.
• ⁴ South Tyrol Health Trust, Department of Rheumtaology, Hospital of Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy.
• ⁵ Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ⁶ Division of Rheumatology, La Colletta Hospital, Local Health Trust 3 Genoa.
• ⁷ Autoimmunology Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
• ⁸ Internal Medicine, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ⁹ Internal Medicine, Hôpital Saint-Louis, University Paris Diderot, Paris, France.
• ¹⁰ Department of Rheumatology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich.
• ¹¹ Rheumatology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
• ¹² Rheumatology Division, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP-EPM), São Paulo, Brazil.
• ¹³ Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁴ Rheumatology, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, Kendal, Cumbria, UK.
• ¹⁵ Department of Medicine (Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology), Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁶ PMRGCAuk, London, UK.
• ¹⁷ Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions, Biomèdiques, August Pi I, Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁸ Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy.
• ¹⁹ Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• ²⁰ Rheumatology, UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
• ²¹ Rheumatology, Solihull Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham.
• ²² Academic Rheumatology, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham.
• ²³ Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre - Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford.
• ²⁴ School of Primary, Community and Social Care, Keele University, Staffordshire.
• ²⁵ Rheumatology, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ²⁶ Division of Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN.
• ²⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ²⁸ Birmingham Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham.
• ²⁹ PMR-GCA Scotland, Perth, Scotland.
• ³⁰ Department of Ophthalmology, King's College Hospital, London, UK.
• ³¹ Medical Centre for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Immanuel Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ³² Rheumatology, Ipswich Hospital, Ipswich, UK.
• ³³ University of East Anglia, Ipswich.
• ³⁴ Rheumatology, Southend University NHS Foundation Trust, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, UK.
• ³⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ³⁶ Department of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ³⁷ Department of Rheumatology, Southend University NHS Foundation Trust, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, UK.