PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rizzo, Toni
ED  - de Boysson, Hubert
TI  - Higher Risk of Aortic Complications in GCA Patients with Positive PET
DP  - 2014 Aug 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 14--15
VI  - 14
IP  - 17
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/17/14.2.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/17/14.2.full
AB  - Aortic complications are an important cause of death in patients with giant-cell arteritis (GCA). Extracranial involvement of large vessels in patients with GCA probably is underdiagnosed. 18-fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) offers good sensitivity for the detection of large vessel involvement in patients with GCA [Blockmans D et al. Arthritis Rheum 2006; Besson FL et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2011]. The objectives of this study were to characterize large vessel involvement using PET in a cohort of patients with GCA, describe the patients who had aortic complications, and identify factors associated with aortic complications.