Abstracts tagged "18FDG PET/CT scan"

Abstract Number: 326 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Cardiac Sarcoidosis Awareness: Are We Underdiagnosing?
Yvonne Lee¹, Patil Injean ¹ and Mehrnaz Hojjati ¹, ¹Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda
Background/Purpose: Sarcoidosis, a multiorgan granulomatous disorder, may involve the heart at any time and often presents with cardiac conduction disturbances, heart failure, and sudden death.…
Abstract Number: 383 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Retroperitoneal Fibrosis- a Single Center Experience
Mert Oztas¹, Emir Cerme ², Izzet Altun ³ and Serdal Ugurlu ⁴, ¹Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa,Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, ⁴Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (iRPF) is a rare, chronic, progressive disorder of unknown etiology and characterized by the presence of inflammatory and fibrous retroperitoneal tissue…
Abstract Number: 755 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
A Novel Diagnostic Algorithm for Polymyalgia Rheumatica Using Three Musculoskeletal Sites on Whole Body PET/CT
Claire Owen¹, Aurora Poon ¹, Victor Yang ¹, Chris McMaster ¹, Sze Ting Lee ¹, David Liew ¹, Jessica Leung ¹, Andrew Scott ¹ and Russell Buchanan ¹, ¹Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Background/Purpose: PMR is associated with a pattern of abnormal 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) uptake on whole body PET/CT that is increasingly recognised to correlate anatomically with inflammation…
Abstract Number: 756 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
A Volar Pattern of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake at the Hand on Whole Body PET/CT Predicts Glucocorticoid-Responsive Disease in Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Claire Owen¹, Aurora Poon ¹, Sze Ting Lee ¹, Chris McMaster ¹, Jessica Leung ¹, David Liew ¹, Andrew Scott ¹ and Russell Buchanan ¹, ¹Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Background/Purpose: Almost half of all patients diagnosed with PMR require a protracted duration of glucocorticoid therapy due to relapsing disease.(1) On whole body PET/CT, PMR…
Abstract Number: 770 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Involvement of Iliofemoral and Axillary Arteries in PET-CT May Be Associated with Atherosclerotic Risk Factors in Takayasu’s Arteritis
Sema Kaymaz-Tahra¹, Salih Ozguven ², Ali Ugur Unal ³, Fatma Alibaz-Oner ⁴, Tunc Ones ², Tanju Yusuf Erdil ² and Haner Direskeneli ⁵, ¹Marmara University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Marmara University Faculty of Medicine,Department of Rheumatology,Istanbul,Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Marmara University, School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: FDG-PET-CT is recommended as one of the imaging modalities for the diagnosis and monitoring of primary large-vessel vasculitis (LVV), such as Takayasu’s arteritis (TAK).…
Abstract Number: 1745 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Exercise Improves Arterial Inflammation in Childhood-onset Takayasu Arteritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Camilla Astley¹, Gleice Clemente ², Maria Teresa Terreri ³, Camila Carneiro ⁴, Marcos lima ⁴, Carlos Buchpiguel ⁴, Hilton Leão Filho ⁴, Fernanda Lima ¹, Ana Lúcia Sá-Pinto ¹, Clovis Silva ⁵, Nadia Aikawa ⁶, Saulo Gil ¹, Hamilton Roschel ¹, Rosa Pereira ⁷ and Bruno Gualano ¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, sao paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ²ivision of Paediatric Rheumatology, Departament of Paediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, sao paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ³Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁴Nuclear Medicine Institute, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, sao paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁵Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo (HCFMUSP), Sao Paulo, Brazil., Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁶Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo (HCFMUSP), Sao Paulo, Brazil., Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁷Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Childhood-onset Takayasu Arteritis (c-TA) is a rare primary systemic vasculitis that affects aorta and its major branches. This condition is associated with reduced wall…
Abstract Number: 2671 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
PET/CT Vascular Findings at Baseline and Six Months in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Giant Cell Arteritis
Anthony Sammel¹, Edward Hsiao ¹, Geoff Schembri ¹, Elizabeth Bailey ¹, Katherine Nguyen ¹, Janice Brewer ¹, Beatrice Janssen ¹, Leslie Schrieber ¹, Peter Youssef ², Clare Fraser ³ and Rodger Laurent ¹, ¹Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia, ²Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia, ³Save Sight Institute, Sydney, Australia
Background/Purpose: PET/CT is a useful modality to diagnose GCA but there is limited knowledge as to how inflammatory vascular findings evolve on follow-up scans. This…
Abstract Number: 2674 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Clinical Symptoms and Associated Vascular Imaging Findings in Takayasu’s Arteritis Compared to Giant Cell Arteritis
Despina Michailidou¹, Joel S. Rosenblum ², Casey A. Rimland ³, Jamie Marko ⁴, Mark A. Ahlman ⁴ and Peter C. Grayson ⁵, ¹National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease (NIAMS), Bethesda, MD, Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Seattle, WA, ²National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease (NIAMS), Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD, ³National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease (NIAMS), Bethesda, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD, ⁵National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: Takayasu’s arteritis (TAK) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) are the two major forms of large vessel vasculitis. The study objectives were to compare clinical…
Abstract Number: 2684 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Real-world Comparative Study of Methotrexate vs Tocilizumab in Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis with Large Vessel Involvement
DIANA PRIETO- PENA¹, Mónica Calderón-Goercke ², Javier Loricera ³, Javier Narváez ⁴, Elena Aurrecoechea ⁵, Ignacio Villa ⁶, Santos Castañeda ⁷, Catalina Gómez-Arango ⁸, Antonio Mera ⁹, Eva Perez Pampín ⁹, Vicente Aldasoro Caceres ¹⁰, N Alvarez Rivas ¹¹, N Fernandez Llanio ¹², María Álvarez del buergo ¹³, Luisa Marena-Rojas ¹⁴, Francisca Sivera ¹⁵, Eva Galindez-Agirregoikoa ¹⁶, Roser Solans-Laqué ¹⁷, Susana Romero-Yuste ¹⁸, Lara Sanchez-Bilbao ¹⁹, Iñigo Gonzalez-Mazon ¹, Isabel Martínez Rodríguez ²⁰, Ignacio Banzo ²⁰, Miguel Angel González-Gay ²¹ and Ricardo Blanco ¹⁹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ²Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ³Rheumatology Department. Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology Department. Hospital Sierrallana, Torrelavega, Spain, ⁶Hospital de Sierrallana, Torrelavega, Cantabria, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology Department, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, IIS-Princesa, Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain, ⁸Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragon, Pais Vasco, Spain, ⁹Division of Rheumatology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, ¹⁰Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Navarra, Navarra, Spain, ¹¹H. Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain, ¹²H. Arnau de Vilanova, Lerida, Spain, ¹³Hospital Río Carrión, Palencia, Castilla y Leon, Spain, ¹⁴Hospital La Mancha Centro, Alcázar de San Juan, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, ¹⁵Hospital General Universitario de Elda, Elda, Spain, ¹⁶Hospital de Basurto, Bilbao, Pais Vasco, Spain, ¹⁷Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain., Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, ¹⁸Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, ¹⁹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²⁰Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, ²¹Universidad de Cantabria and IDIVAL, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common large vasculitis in elderly patients. According to previous studies, 50% of patients with GCA in whom…
Abstract Number: 2687 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Clinicopathologic Associations in a Large International Cohort of Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis
Michael Putman¹, K Bates Gribbons ², Anthea Craven ³, Cristina Ponte ⁴, Joanna Robson ⁵, Ravi Suppiah ⁶, Richard Watts ⁷, Raashid Luqmani ³, Peter Merkel ⁸, Amy Archer ⁹ and Peter C. Grayson ¹⁰, ¹Northwestern University, Chicago, ²National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ³University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁵Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand, ⁷Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, ⁸University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, ⁹Northwestern, Chicago, ¹⁰National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: In addition to aiding in diagnosis, histopathologic findings from temporal artery biopsy (TAB) specimens in giant cell arteritis (GCA) may be valuable for their…
Abstract Number: 494 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Arterial Wall Inflammation Declines after 6 Months of Anti-Inflammatory Therapy with Methotrexate and/or Adalimumab in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Annelies Blanken¹, Rabia Agca¹, Alexandre Voskuyl², Ronald Boellaard³, Conny van der Laken² and Michael Nurmohamed^2,4, ¹Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center, Location Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center, Location VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Rheumatology, Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center, Location Reade, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an elevated cardiovascular (CV) disease risk, mostly explained by both an increased prevalence of traditional CV risk factors…
Abstract Number: 2197 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Steroid Bolus Leads to a Negative 18f-FDG PET/CT Scan in Large Vessel Vasculitis. Data from a Multicenter Giant Cell Arteritis Cohort Database
Paula Estrada¹, Patricia Moya², Hector Corominas³, Delia Reina⁴, Dacia Cerdà⁴, Daniel Roig Vilaseca⁴, Vanessa Navarro⁴, Sergi Heredia⁴ and Francisco Javier Narváez⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Moisès Broggi-Hospital General de L´Hospitalet. Consorci Sanitari Integral, Barcelona, Spain, ²Rheumatology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ³Rheumatology, Hospital Universitari de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Moisès Broggi-Hospital General de L´Hospitalet. Consorci Sanitari Integral,, barcelona, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology Department, Hospital de Bellvitge. Barcelona. Spain, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) and polymialgia rheumatica (PMR) are overlapping inflammatory diseases. Large Vessel Vasculitis (LVV) is frequently present in any of the two…
Abstract Number: 2203 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Atherosclerotic Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients: A Post-Hoc Study Using Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography
Yukio Yonemoto¹, Masahiro Tachibana², Koichi OKAMURA¹, Takahito SUTO¹, Hideo SAKANE¹, Chisa OKURA¹, Tetsuya Kaneko² and Hirotaka CHIKUDA¹, ¹Orthopaedic Surgery, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, MAEBASHI, Japan, ²Orthopaedic Surgery, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has long been associated with an increased cardiovascular risk, and despite substantial improvements in disease management, its associated mortality remains high.…
Abstract Number: 2003 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
18 FDG PET/CT Predicts Decline in Functional Respiratory TESTS in Systemic Sclerosis Patients but NOT in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Jorge Juan Fragio Gil¹, Jose Ivorra Cortes¹, Manuela Martinez Frances², Jose Luis Loaiza Gongora³, Juan José Alegre⁴, Marta Garijo Bufort⁵, Susana Herrera Lara⁶, Inmaculada Chalmeta Verdejo¹, Luis Gonzalez Puig¹, Rosa Negueroles Albuixech¹, Cristina Alcañiz Escandell¹, Karla Arevalo Ruales¹, Ines Canovas Olmos¹, Carlos Feced Olmos¹, Roxana Gonzalez Mazario¹, Elena Grau Garcia¹, Eztizen Labrador Sanchez¹, Isabel Martinez Cordellat¹, Carmen Najera Herranz¹, Jose Eloy Oller Rodriguez¹, Francisco Miguel Ortiz-Sanjuán¹, Elvira Vicens Bernabeu¹, Marta De la Rubia Navarro¹, David Hervás Marín⁷ and Jose Andres Roman Ivorra¹, ¹Rheumatology Department. Hospital Universitario y Politecnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ²Pneumology Department. Hospital Universitario y Politecnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ³Nuclear Medicine Department. HUP La Fe, Valencia, Spain, ⁴Sección de Reumatología Hospital Universitario Dr Peset Valencia, Valencia, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology Unit. Hospital de León, León, Spain, ⁶Pneumology Department. Hospital Dr. Peset, Valencia, Spain, ⁷Biostatistics Unit. IIS La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) are a group of illnesses that often complicate connective tissue diseases (CTD) such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or systemic sclerosis…
Abstract Number: 1318 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Prediction of Large Joint Destruction in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Using FDG-PET/CT: A Prospective Study
Takahito Suto, Koichi Okamura, Yukio Yonemoto, Chisa Okura and Kenji Takagishi, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Background/Purpose: The assessments of joint damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are mainly restricted to small joints in the hands and feet. However, the…

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