PUZZLE: GIANT CELL ARTERITIS

The eggs contain symptoms of, or words associated with, giant cell arteritis (GCA). Unscramble the anagram in egg 1 to solve its clue. There will be one extra letter you don't use, which you have to take over to egg 2 to solve that clue, and so on. You will be left with an extra letter after solving the final egg. What is it?

Clues

Investigations

Use arrows to show whether the values for the following blood tests are characteristically:

increased ( ^ ),

normal ( <-->) or

decreased ( v )

in GCA:

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