Table 1.
Study patients
| Patient | |||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |
| Age (years) | 77 | 69 | 81 | 80 | 79 | 90 | 68 | 68 | 71 | 65 | 80 |
| Sex | F | F | F | F | M | F | F | F | M | F | M |
| Headache | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Tender temporal artery | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| Jaw claudication | + | + | - | - | - | + | + | + | + | + | - |
| Visual loss | - | - | - | + | + | + | - | + | - | - | + |
| Amaurosis fugax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | + | - |
| Diplopia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | + |
| AION | - | - | - | + | + | + | - | - | - | - | - |
| CRAO | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | + |
| Others | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Pale disc | ARMD | - | - |
| Systemic symptoms | + | + | + | + | + | + | - | + | - | - | + |
| ESR (mm/h) | 46 | 40 | 110 | 104 | 82 | 97 | 24 | 65 | 82 | 30 | 80 |
| Artery biopsy length (mm) | 13 | 17 | 25 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 4.5 | 2.5 | 33 | 4 | 7 |
| Duration of steroid (days) | 0 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 25 | 30 | 32 | 36 | 36 | 37 | 45 |
| Result | + | + | - | + | + | +(H) | + | +(H) | + | A | + |
AION = anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy, CRAO = central retinal artery occlusion, ESR = erythrocyte sedimentation rate, +H = healed giant cell arteritis, A = atherosclerosis, ARMD = age related macular degeneration.