Comparison and Significance of Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomographic Findings of Large-Vessel Vasculitis Before and After Treatment: Differences Between Takayasu Arteritis and Giant Cell Arteritis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Imaging is essential for diagnosing large-vessel vasculitis (LVV). During diagnostic imaging, assessing disease activity and vascular damage separately is important. Acute-phase findings represent disease activity, while chronic-phase findings represent vascular damage; however, whether the imaging findings are acute or chronic may be unclear. We investigated how vascular lesions change before and after treatment and whether they were acute- or chronic-phase findings.

Methods

Fifty-one patients with LVV who had undergone contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scans from the neck to the pelvis before treatment and 1-4 months after treatment were recruited. Wall thickening, wall contrast enhancement, stenosis, occlusion, dilation, aneurysm, and calcification were

SUBMITTER: Nakagomi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11562625 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature