id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-024189-t7mbsr25 Weyand, Cornelia M. Vasculitides 2008 .txt text/plain 26631 1415 40 A relatively disease-specifi c manifestation of GCA that is present in about half of the patients is jaw claudication: pain in the masseter or temporalis muscles caused by compromised blood fl ow in the extracranial branches of the carotid artery. Although a high erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is usually considered a hallmark of GCA, in a recent study 25% of all patients with positive temporal artery biopsies had normal ESRs before the initiation of glucocorticoid therapy (16) . Upregulation of acute phase reactants is helpful in distinguishing PMR from other pain syndromes, yet (as in GCA and TA) not all patients with active disease have elevated markers of infl ammation within their serum. Kawasaki's disease (KD), once known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, is a systemic infl ammatory disorder occurring in children that is accompanied by vasculitis and a risk of coronary artery aneurysms. ./cache/cord-024189-t7mbsr25.txt ./txt/cord-024189-t7mbsr25.txt