PET/CT uncovers cranial giant cell arteritis

BACKGROUND: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an inflammation of large and medium sized vessels, mainly affecting people over 50 years of age. Diagnosis needs to be made quickly to prevent complications. Steroids treatment should be started once diagnosis is made. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we reported a c...

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Autores principales: Anati, Tamer, Hoffman Ben Shabat, Michal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8528903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34671862
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41824-021-00114-1
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description BACKGROUND: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an inflammation of large and medium sized vessels, mainly affecting people over 50 years of age. Diagnosis needs to be made quickly to prevent complications. Steroids treatment should be started once diagnosis is made. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we reported a case of cranial GCA in a 82-year-old man. [18F]FDG PET/CT imaging demonstrated higher FDG uptake in medium sized and cranial vessels. Glucocorticoid treatment was started, followed by a rapid and marked improvement of symptoms and inflammatory markers. CONCLUSIONS: This case report supports the role of PET/CT hybrid imaging as a useful noninvasive tool in the evaluation of cranial GCA.
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spelling pubmed-85289032021-11-04 PET/CT uncovers cranial giant cell arteritis Anati, Tamer Hoffman Ben Shabat, Michal Eur J Hybrid Imaging Case Report BACKGROUND: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an inflammation of large and medium sized vessels, mainly affecting people over 50 years of age. Diagnosis needs to be made quickly to prevent complications. Steroids treatment should be started once diagnosis is made. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we reported a case of cranial GCA in a 82-year-old man. [18F]FDG PET/CT imaging demonstrated higher FDG uptake in medium sized and cranial vessels. Glucocorticoid treatment was started, followed by a rapid and marked improvement of symptoms and inflammatory markers. CONCLUSIONS: This case report supports the role of PET/CT hybrid imaging as a useful noninvasive tool in the evaluation of cranial GCA. Springer International Publishing 2021-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8528903/ /pubmed/34671862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41824-021-00114-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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