Abstracts tagged "18FDG PET/CT scan and Angiography"

Abstract Number: 2920 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Comparison of Arterial Patterns of Disease in Takayasu’s Arteritis and Giant Cell Arteritis
K Bates Gribbons¹, Cristina Ponte ², Anthea Craven ³, David Cuthbertson ⁴, Simon Carette ⁵, Gary S. Hoffman ⁶, Nader A. Khalidi ⁷, Curry L. Koening ⁸, Carol Langford ⁹, Kathleen Maksimowicz-McKinnon ¹⁰, Carol A. McAlear ¹¹, Paul Monach ¹², Larry Moreland ¹³, Christian Pagnoux ¹⁴, Kaitlin Quinn ¹⁵, Joanna Robson ¹⁶, Philip Seo ¹⁷, Antoine Sreih ¹⁸, Ravi Suppiah ¹⁹, Kenneth Warrington ²⁰, Steven Ytterberg ²¹, Raashid Luqmani ³, Richard Watts ²², Peter Merkel ¹⁸ and Peter C. Grayson ²³, ¹National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ²Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, ³University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁴University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, ⁶Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ⁷McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁸University of Utah Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ¹⁰Henry Ford Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, ¹¹University of Pennsylvania - VCRC Project Manager, Philadelphia, PA, ¹²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹³University of Pittsburgh, PITTSBURGH, PA, ¹⁴Mount Sinai Hospital and University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁵Georgetown University Hospital/National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, ¹⁶Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom, ¹⁷Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁸University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ¹⁹Department of Rheumatology, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand, ²⁰Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN, ²¹Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, ²²Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, ²³National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Current classification criteria differentiate between Takayasu’s arteritis (TAK) and giant cell arteritis (GCA), the two most common forms of large-vessel vasculitis, based primarily on…