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  • Title: [Dutch College of General Practitioner's practice guideline on polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis].
    Author: Eizenga WH, Hakvoort L, Dubbeld P, Geijer RM, Goudswaard AN, Nederlandse Huisartsen Genootschap.
    Journal: Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd; 2010; 154():A1919. PubMed ID: 20482924.
    Abstract:
    The practice guideline for general practitioners (GPs) on polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis was published in February 2010 by the Dutch College of General Practitioners. This guideline provides GPs with recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of polymyalgia rheumatica. After other disorders have been excluded, the diagnosis of 'polymyalgia rheumatica' is made in patients over the age of 50 who have bilateral pain in the neck and shoulder girdle and/or hip girdle that has lasted for longer than 4 weeks, morning stiffness that lasts longer than 60 minutes and an ESR > 40 mm in the first hour. After the diagnosis is made treatment with prednisone or prednisolone 15 mg per day is started. This dosage is diminished very gradually according to a uniform treatment schedule during a period of 3 months, thereafter depending on the clinical course. The practice guideline pays attention to the diagnosis and management of temporal arteritis only when it occurs concurrently with polymyalgia rheumatica.
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