Abstracts tagged "magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and scleroderma"

Abstract Number: 1735 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Diagnostic Accuracy of MR Angiography in a Cohort with Systemic Sclerosis Compared to Other Rheumatic Diseases with Acral Hypoperfusion
Diana Dan^1,2, Simon Saner¹, Andrea D. Gloor^1,3, Harald Bonel⁴, Jennifer L. Cullmann⁴ and Peter M. Villiger¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergology, Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ²Service of Rheumatology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland, ³Dermatology, Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ⁴Institute of Diagnostic, Interventional and Pediatric Radiology, Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Vasculopathy is a major feature of systemic sclerosis (SSc). It leads to intimal proliferation and adventitial fibrosis of small and large arterial blood vessels.…