PET/CT for diagnosing 4 cases of giant cell arteritis and literature review

VernacularTitle:PET-CT诊断巨细胞动脉炎4例并文献复习
Author: Kaiyan GAO ¹ ; Fenghong YUAN ; Wei XU ; Ting LIU ; Yaohong ZOU
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1. 南京医科大学附属无锡人民医院风湿免疫科
Keywords: PET-CT; giant cell arteritis; retrospective analysis; clinical value
From: Chongqing Medicine 2017;46(33):4673-4675,4679
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the clinical significance of PET/CT in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis .Methods The clinical manifestations ,laboratory detection and PET/CT results in 4 patients with giant cell arteritis treated in this hospital were retrospectively analyzed .And the relevant literatures were reviewed .Results The age of 4 cases in this hospital and 29 cases in lit-eratures all were over 50 years old ;clinical manifestations were mainly the non-specific symptoms such as fever ,weight loss and my-algia;the laboratory detection results mainly manifested by the increase of ESR and CRP ;PET-CT indicated that the continuous dif-fuse metabolism of the wall in aorta and its primary branching was elevated ;the maximal standardized uptake value(SUVmax) of 4 cases in this hospital was 2 .5-9 .6 .Conclusion PET/CT has a certain value for diagnosing giant cell arteritis ,especially the pa-tients with early stage or atypical clinical manifestations .PET/CT has certain significance for determining the lesion range and jud-ging the curative effect .