Large-vessel vasculitis (LVV) manifests as inflammation of the aorta and its major branches
and is the most common primary vasculitis in adults. LVV comprises two distinct conditions …

Large vessel vasculitis (LVV) is defined as a disease mainly affecting the large arteries, with
two major variants, Takayasu arteritis (TA) and giant cell arteritis (GCA). GCA often coexists …

Objectives To update the evidence on imaging for diagnosis, monitoring and outcome
prediction in large vessel vasculitis (LVV) to inform the 2023 update of the European …

GCA and PMR are conditions of older persons that frequently overlap. The traditional
concept of GCA has focused on cranial symptoms such as headache and visual …

Objective To assess the clinical value of 18F‐fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission
tomography (PET) in a prospective cohort of patients with large vessel vasculitis (LVV) and …

Aim The diagnosis, severity and extent of a sterile inflammation or a septic infection could be
challenging since there is not one single test able to achieve an accurate diagnosis. The …

Purpose To evaluate the in-treatment diagnostic accuracy of FDG PET/CT in large-vessel
giant cell arteritis (LV-GCA) by serial scans before and after a short course of high-dose …

GCA is a chronic, idiopathic, granulomatous vasculitis of medium and large arteries. It
comprises overlapping phenotypes including classic cranial arteritis and extra-cranial GCA …

Purpose Management of giant cell arteritis (GCA, Horton's disease) involves many
uncertainties. This work was undertaken to establish French recommendations for GCA …

Objectives To assess agreement between interpretation of magnetic resonance
angiography (MRA) and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) for …