Valentin S. Schäfer

Novel PET/CT tracers for large-vessel vasculitis: molecular imaging of immune cell recruitment, myeloid activation and vascular remodelling in giant cell arteritis and Takayasu's arteritis

Simon M. Petzinna, Claus-Jürgen Bauer, Valentin S. Schäfer

Over the past decade, positron emission tomography (PET) has become an important part of the management of large-vessel vasculitis (LVV). Current clinical practice relies predominantly on [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) PET combined with computed tomography (CT) for anatomical localisation. Although [18F]FDG PET/CT shows high …

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Definitions and online reliability assessment of elementary ultrasound lesions in Takayasu arteritis: a study from the OMERACT Ultrasound Working Group

Alessandro Tomelleri, Simon J. Reider, Christian Dejaco, Wolfgang A. Schmidt et autres

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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance detects subclinical cardiac involvement in giant cell arteritis

Annemarie Proff, Simon M. Petzinna, Lena Kreis, Sebastian Kirch et autres

BACKGROUND: To assess cardiac involvement in patients with newly diagnosed giant cell arteritis (GCA) using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). METHODS: In this prospective single-center study, patients with newly diagnosed GCA underwent CMR at baseline and under therapy 6 months later. The imaging …

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