European journal of internal medicine
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Eur. J. Intern. Med. · Dec 2017
Multicenter StudyRepetitive 18F-FDG-PET/CT in patients with large-vessel giant-cell arteritis and controlled disease.
18F-FDG PET/CT can detect large-vessel involvement in giant-cell arteritis (GCA) with a good sensitivity. In patients with clinically and biologically controlled disease, we aimed to assess how vascular uptakes evolve on repetitive FDG-PET/CT. ⋯ Our study revealed long-term persistent vascular uptake on repeated FDG-PET/CT in >80% of our GCA patients with large-vessel inflammation and clinical-biological controlled disease. Prospective studies are required to confirm these findings.