Abstracts tagged "18FDG PET/CT scan and polymyalgia rheumatica"

Abstract Number: 1169 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Influence of Steroid Treatment on 18F-FDG PET/CT Accuracy to Detect Vascular and Musculoeskeletal Involvement in Patients with Polymyalgia Reumatica
DIANA PRIETO- PENA¹, Mónica Calderón-Goercke ², Isabel Martínez Rodríguez ³, Ignacio Banzo ³, Lara Sanchez-Bilbao ⁴, Iñigo Gonzalez-Mazon ¹, Belén Atienza-Mateo ⁴, Miguel Angel González-Gay ⁵ and Ricardo Blanco ⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ²Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ³Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ⁵Universidad de Cantabria and IDIVAL, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/CT has been proposed as a promising tool for assessing both musculoskeletal and vascular involvement in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). Glucocorticoids…