Collection and Analysis of the Clinical and Biological Characteristics of Patients Treated for Giant Cells ARTEitis (Horton's Disease)

Collection and Analysis of the Clinical and Biological Characteristics of Patients Treated at Nîmes Carémeau University Hospital, for Giant Cells ARTEitis (Horton's Disease), for Diagnosis and During Long-term Follow-up

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) or Horton's disease: frequent large vessel vasculitis (cephalic) (incidence estimated at 9 per 100,000 in France), potentially responsible for blindness.

Treatment: corticosteroid therapy, which is effective in the vast majority of cases.

Clinical problem: relapse; 36% to 44% of patients have a relapse that occurs in the first year for many patients, requiring a re-escalation of corticosteroid therapy, with its consequences:

• Cumulative dose of corticosteroid therapy that causes cardiovascular and infectious morbidity.
• Requires additional immunosuppressive treatment.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients aged 45 years or older
• Patients with giant cell arteritis according to ACR criteria or revised criteria incorporating imaging parameters,
• Patients managed at the University Hospital of Carémeau in Internal Medicine from 01/01/2011 to 01/01/2020.

Exclusion Criteria:

None