Introduction An altered immune tolerance disturbed by immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs)
may contribute to new-onset polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) …

(1) Objective: To assess the spectrum of PET-CT-related large vessel vasculitis (LVV) in a
Spanish tertiary center and to determine whether FDG uptake by PET-CT differs between …

Introduction Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a large vessel (LV) vasculitis thataffects people aged
50 years and older. Classically, GCA was considered adisease that involved branches of the …

Abstract Introduction Hybrid [18F] FDG PET imaging is currently the method of choice for a
wide variety of infectious and inflammatory disorders and was recently adopted in several …

Introduction To reach the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA), signs, symptoms, laboratory
tests, imaging findings, and occasionally anatomopathological results from temporal artery …

Methods The Rheumatology Department at the Waikato Hospital set up a GCA fast-track
pathway at the end of 2013 (Figure 1) in collaboration with ophthalmologists. Patients …

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common primary large vessel systemic vasculitis in the
western world. Even though the involvement of scalp and intracranial vessels has received …

PET/CT is an imaging modality that is increasingly being used to diagnose large-vessel
vasculitis. In the case of giant cell arteritis, it was first used to demonstrate inflammation of …

Objectives To derive segmental cut-off values and measures of diagnostic accuracy for the
intima-media thickness of compressed temporal artery segments for the diagnosis of giant …

Imaging probe and contrast agents play significant role in combating cancer. Based on
special chemical materials, imaging probe can convert cancer symptoms into information …