ACR Criteria: Sensitivity and Specificity
Introduction:
None written. Excerpt from the entry in Temporal Arteritis:
in patients with "a" vasculitis.
in patients with "a" vasculitis.
>=3/5 criteria:
* Age greater than or equal to 50 years at time of disease onset
* Localized headache of new onset
* Tenderness or decreased pulse of the temporal artery
* Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) greater than 50 mm/h
* Biopsy revealing a necrotizing arteritis with a predominance of mononuclear cells or a granulomatous process with multinucleated giant cells.
Associated Diagnoses:
94% sensitive, 91% specific
95% sensitive, 69% specific
84% sensitive, 89% specific
92% sensitive, 75% specific
87.1% sensitive, 87.7% specific
88% sensitive, 92% specific
90.5% sensitive, 97.8% specific
91% sensitive, 99% specific