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18F-FDG PET/CT in LV-GCA during Active and Inactive Disease Stages Is Associated with the Metabolic Profile, but Not the Macrophage-Related Cytokines: Results of an Integrated Analysis
2024-06-27
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Abstract: Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) is an autoimmune/autoinflammatory disease affecting large vessels in patients over 50 years old. The disease presents as an acute inflammatory response with two phenotypes, cranial-GCA and Large Vessel Vasculitis (LV)-GCA, involving the thoracic aor-ta and its branches. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomogra-phy (18F-FDG PET-CT) is among the imagin...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 56a7973e-6f94-5ea4-bcaf-13a9c0d07ec9
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202406.1940.v1
