Giant Cell Arteritis: Visual Loss Is Our Major Concern
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Abstract
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common vasculitis in Western countries among individuals 50 years and older1. This medium and large-vessel granulomatous vasculitis typically affects the extracranial branches of the carotid artery1. Common features of the disease such as headache or jaw claudication are the result of vasculitic involvement of arteries derived from the external carotid artery. However, visual manifestations, including visual loss — the most feared complications of this vasculitis — are generally due to the arteritic damage affecting the ophthalmic branches of the internal carotid artery2. The most common ophthalmic manifestation of GCA is anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, which is caused by interruption of blood flow in the posterior ciliary arteries to the optic nerve head. The clinical picture is described as sudden painless loss of vision3. Visual loss may present as a mist in all or part of the visual field and evolve within 24 to 48 hours to total blindness. Unilateral visual loss may be initially unnoticed by the patient until, by chance, the unaffected eye is covered. One eye is affected first, but involvement of the other eye in untreated patients may occur 1 to 10 days after the initial event4. In the acute phase of anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, the optic disc is pale and swollen, but the retina is almost normal. Afterward, optic nerve atrophy associated with optic disc cupping is observed. Less commonly, visual loss is caused by central retinal artery occlusion, ischemic retrobulbar neuropathy or occipital infarction in the context of a stroke involving the vertebrobasilar territory2. When the arteritic process involves the central retinal artery leading to retinal stroke, the retina is damaged primarily and it appears greyish and swollen, and a contrasting red zone can be … Address correspondence to Prof. M.A. González-Gay, Rheumatology Division, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, c/ Avenida de Valdecilla s/n, 39008, Santander, Spain. E-mail: miguelaggay{at}hotmail.com
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".