Increased Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Following Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Predictor of Endoleak?

The main criterion for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair is an AAA diameter ≥5.5 cm. However, some AAAs rupture when they are smaller. Size alone may therefore not be a sufficient criterion to determine rupture risk. Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake is increased in the presence of inflammation a...

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Autores principales: Paraskevas, Kosmas I, Tzovaras, Alexandros A, Stathopoulos, Vassilios, Gentimi, Fotini, Mikhailidis, Dimitri P
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20657717
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401004010117
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author Paraskevas, Kosmas I
Tzovaras, Alexandros A
Stathopoulos, Vassilios
Gentimi, Fotini
Mikhailidis, Dimitri P
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Tzovaras, Alexandros A
Stathopoulos, Vassilios
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description The main criterion for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair is an AAA diameter ≥5.5 cm. However, some AAAs rupture when they are smaller. Size alone may therefore not be a sufficient criterion to determine rupture risk. Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake is increased in the presence of inflammation and it was suggested that this may be a better predictor of rupture risk than AAA size. Furthermore, increased FDG uptake following endovascular AAA repair may be an indirect predictor of continuous AAA sac enlargement due to the presence of an endoleak (even if this is not detected by imaging modalities) and/or increased AAA rupture risk. The role of FDG uptake needs to be explored further in the management of AAAs.
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spelling pubmed-29089252010-07-23 Increased Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Following Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Predictor of Endoleak? Paraskevas, Kosmas I Tzovaras, Alexandros A Stathopoulos, Vassilios Gentimi, Fotini Mikhailidis, Dimitri P Open Cardiovasc Med J Article The main criterion for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair is an AAA diameter ≥5.5 cm. However, some AAAs rupture when they are smaller. Size alone may therefore not be a sufficient criterion to determine rupture risk. Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake is increased in the presence of inflammation and it was suggested that this may be a better predictor of rupture risk than AAA size. Furthermore, increased FDG uptake following endovascular AAA repair may be an indirect predictor of continuous AAA sac enlargement due to the presence of an endoleak (even if this is not detected by imaging modalities) and/or increased AAA rupture risk. The role of FDG uptake needs to be explored further in the management of AAAs. Bentham Open 2010-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2908925/ /pubmed/20657717 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401004010117 Text en © Paraskevas et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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Paraskevas, Kosmas I
Tzovaras, Alexandros A
Stathopoulos, Vassilios
Gentimi, Fotini
Mikhailidis, Dimitri P
Increased Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Following Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Predictor of Endoleak?
title Increased Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Following Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Predictor of Endoleak?
title_full Increased Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Following Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Predictor of Endoleak?
title_fullStr Increased Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Following Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Predictor of Endoleak?
title_full_unstemmed Increased Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Following Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Predictor of Endoleak?
title_short Increased Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Following Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Predictor of Endoleak?
title_sort increased fluorodeoxyglucose uptake following endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a predictor of endoleak?
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20657717
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874192401004010117
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