#1 TEMPORAL ARTERITIS/ GIANT CELL ARTERITIS

#2 HOW DO WE GET TEMPORAL ARTERITIS?

• Temporal Arteritis is imflammation of the arteritis.
• It affects the head, neck, upper body and arms.
• Temporal Arteritis most effects the temporal artery.
• The Temporal artery runs over the temple,
• To the outside of the eye.

#3 WHAT SPECIFICALLY CAUSES TEMPORAL ARTERITIS?

• (T.A) is where one or more arteritis become swollen and inflamed.
• Arteritis is a pliable tube with elastic walls
• Arteritis pumps oxygenated blood from the heart through your main body and brain
• They don't truly knows what causes the swelling, but its partially cause of a defective immune system.
• (T.A) may also occur during or while diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica.

#4 HOW DOES IT AFFECT THE SENSES??

• temporary loss of vision in one eye double vision (diplopia) may occur as a 'warning' symptom before any permanent visual loss.
• often its is an early symptom, partially blindness in one or in both eyes.
• People who are affected typically report a feeling of a shade covering one eye
• the body's immune system responds incorrectly to an infection, and begins to attack the lining of blood vessels.

#5 OVERALL HEALTH

• A person with (T.A) overall health usually experience pain headaches and tingle in the arms and legs
• Usually there's not enough blood flow to the body parts cause of the inflammation of the med-large size artery
• Which causes tingle in the arms and legs also
• dull, throbbing headache, often at one or both sides of the forehead which makes the people with (t.a) go to the doc
• Arm claudication can occur also

#6 SYMPTOMS...

• Headache/ hearing lost
• Tenderness over scalp around Temporal arteritis
• Visual disturbance/ Visual blindness
• Pain in the Jaw muscles/ face pain
• Weight lost/ bleeding gums

#7 More Symptoms:

• Depression
• Night Sweats
• Fever/ general illness feeling
• Lost of Appetite
• Rare cases can cause stroke

#8 LIFE FACTS...

• (1/2) people that have (T.A) would mostly likely develop polymylagia rheumatic
• They may have respiratory complaints
• They also may develop thoracic aortic aneurysms- and it occurs when the main artery to the heart develops a weak spot and balloons outwards

#8 OCCURRENCE

• Usually women get (GCA) with European ansteroy, Scandinavian descent.
• People over the age of 55 to 80
• African American rarely get it, also runs in family
• Women get it more than men.
• estimated 200 per 100,000 people over 50 years of age develop (GCA)

#9 TREATMENTS

• you will receive corticosteroids medicines you take by mouth. These medicines are often started even before a biopsy is
• Your doctor may also ask you to take aspirin
• Medication is continued at this high dose for one month
• They gradually slow down the intake over the following months to the lowest possible dose, or is discontinued.
• Most people begin to feel better within a few days after starting treatment. You will need to take medicine for 1-2 yrs.

#10 WORK CITED...

• http://www.ehow.com/about_5512597_causes-temporal-arteritis.html
• http://www.patient.co.uk/health/giant-cell-arteritis-temporal-arteritis-lea...
• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000448.htm
• http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1612591-overview