Abstracts tagged "Autoimmune diseases and macrophage activation syndrome"

Abstract Number: 245 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
The Clinical Utility of Splenic Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Patients with Macrophage Activation Syndrome
Sung Soo Ahn¹, Sang Hyun Hwang², Seung Min Jung¹, Sang-Won Lee¹, Yong-Beom Park³, Mijin Yun² and Jason Jungsik Song¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ²Department of Nuclear Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ³Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
AbstractBackground/Purpose: To evaluate splenic glucose metabolism in macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), characterised by overwhelming systemic inflammation. Splenic 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake was compared in patients with…