Diagnosing Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA): Key Steps You Need to Know! When a patient presents with symptoms like throbbing headache, jaw pain while chewing, scalp pain, blurry vision, and fever, what do you do? ✅ Five ACR Criteria for GCA: Age > 50 Years ESR > 50 mm/hr New-onset headache Temporal artery tenderness Temporal artery biopsy findings Diagnosis: You need 3 out of 5 criteria to make the call. First Lab Tests: ESR and CRP to confirm inflammation. 💉 Empiric Treatment: Start high-dose stero

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FELINE TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY Feline temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a syndrome with characteristic ictal signs including orofacial otomatism with lip smacking, facial twitching, chewing together with mydriasis and/or hypersalivation. It is important to recognise that feline TLE is not itself an aetiological category but can be caused by many different aetiologies ranging from vascular, neoplastic, inflammatory or unknown aetiology. MRI in these affected cats often shows changes in signa intensi