1. Role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the diagnosis of inflammatory and infectious vascular disease
- Author
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Marek Chrapko, Bogusław Stefaniak, Beata Chrapko, Anna Nocuń, Tomasz Zubilewicz, and Andrzej Drop
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pathology ,Adolescent ,Inflammation ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Infections ,Multimodal Imaging ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 ,Large vessel vasculitis ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Vascular Diseases ,Aortitis ,Aged ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Vascular disease ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Abdominal aortic aneurysm ,Review article ,Giant cell arteritis ,Positron emission tomography ,Positron-Emission Tomography ,Female ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,business - Abstract
This review article discusses the utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT in diagnosis and management of vascular disease. We stress usefulness of this method in large vessel inflammation and infection. In our work we based on the literature analysis and clinical cases diagnosed in our institution by use of 18F-FDG PET/CT. The literature exploration was focusing on vascular inflammation and infections and 18-FDG PET. The search was performed on PubMed database and cross referencing. We present the practical review with several images of vascular diseases like: Takayasu arteritis, giant cell arteritis, vascular graft infections, abdominal aortic aneurysm infections and cases of aortitis and periaortitis. From this work inflammation associated with atheromatic process and vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque we excluded. 18F-FGD PET/CT is a sensitive metabolic, reliable, non-invasive imaging modality suitable for diagnosis and follow-up of inflammation and infections in vascular system.
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- 2016