Computed tomography (CT) and vasculitis Archives

Abstract Number: 1338 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Increased Aortic Wall Thickness for the Diagnosis of Aortitis: a Computed Tomography-Based Study
Gleb Slobodin^1,2,3, Afif Nakhleh⁴, Doron Rimar¹, Vladimir Wolfson⁵, Itzhak Rosner¹ and Majed Odeh^2,3, ¹Rheumatology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, ²Internal Medicine A, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, ³Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, ⁴47 Golomb St, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, ⁵Radiology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
Background/Purpose: To evaluate the usefulness of computed tomography (CT)-measured aortic wall thickness (AWT) as a sole imaging finding for the confirmation of clinically suspected aortitis.…

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