TY - JOUR T1 - Response to: ‘The role of temporal artery biopsy in patients with giant cell arteritis is debated’ by Moiseev <em>et al</em> JF - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases JO - Ann Rheum Dis DO - 10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-213284 SP - annrheumdis-2018-213284 AU - Christian Dejaco AU - Sofia Ramiro AU - Christina Duftner AU - Wolfgang A Schmidt Y1 - 2018/03/13 UR - http://ard.bmj.com/content/early/2018/03/13/annrheumdis-2018-213284.abstract N2 - Moiseev et al1 underlined the main message of the new European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the use of imaging in large vessel vasculitis (LVV), namely the importance of imaging as a first-line test for the diagnosis of LVV.2 The EULAR task force also emphasised that the recommendations should not be understood as a recommendation against performing temporal artery biopsy (TAB) in giant cell arteritis (GCA), rather a biopsy still has its place when there is diagnostic doubt after having performed imaging or when imaging is not available or not performed with sufficient expertise. When a diagnosis can be … ER -