Shashi B Singh, Sambhawana Bhandari, Sadikshya Bhandari, Samikshya Bhandari, Rajshree Singh, William Y Raynor, Soren Hess, Thomas J Werner, Abass Alavi, Mona-Elisabeth Revheim
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory disorder that commonly presents with polyarthritis but can have multisystemic involvement and complications, leading to increased morbidity and mortality. The diagnosis of RA continues to be challenging due to its varied clinical presentations. In this review article, we aim to determine the potential of PET/CT to assist in the diagnosis of RA and its complications, evaluate the therapeutic response to treatment, and predict RA remission. PET/CT has increasingly been used in the last decade to diagnose, monitor treatment response, predict remissions, and diagnose subclinical complications in RA...
January 26, 2024: Annals of Nuclear Medicine