Anne-Claire Billet, Thomas Thibault, Éric Liozon, Hubert De Boysson, Laurent Perard, Olivier Espitia, Aurélie Daumas, Quentin Gomes De Pinho, Cécile-Audrey Durel, Arnaud Hot, Boris Bienvenu, Sébastien Humbert, Claude Bachmeyer, Sabine Mainbourg, Thomas Sené, Hervé Devilliers, Bastien Durand Bailloud, Hélène Greigert, Alexandre Cochet, Bernard Bonnotte, Jean-Louis Alberini, Maxime Samson
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the ability of 18 FDG PET/CT, at diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA) and during follow-up, to predict occurrence of relapse in large-vessel GCA (LV-GCA). METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study using the French Study Group for Large-Vessel Vasculitis (GEFA) network. Data from patients with LV-GCA diagnosed by PET/CT and who had PET/CT in the following year were collected. For each PET/CT, PET vascular activity score (PETVAS) and total vascular score (TVS) were assessed, and their ability to predict the occurrence of subsequent relapse was assessed...
April 15, 2024: European Journal of Internal Medicine