ReviewTherapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease2014
Role of ultrasound in the understanding and management of vasculitis.
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- Operative Procedures for Ultrasound Assessment of Extracranial Artery Disease: A Narrative Review by the Italian Society for Vascular Investigation (SIDV).Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Ultrasound in GCA: Halo Sign Quantification and Visual Symptoms, Systemic Inflammation and Relapse Risk.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2024Article
- Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis.European journal of rheumatology · 2024Article
- Diagnosing vasculitis with ultrasound: findings and pitfalls.Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2024Review
- Atypical giant cell arteritis presentations diagnosed with FDG-18 whole body PET imaging.BMJ case reports · 2023Article
- Clinical study of carotid superb microvascular imaging in evaluating the activity of Takayasu's arteritis.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Ultrasound Technologies and the Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis.Biomedicines · 2021Review
- Ultrasonography as a Diagnostic Support Tool for Childhood Takayasu Arteritis Referred to as Fever of Unknown Origin: Case Series and Literature Review.JMA journal · 2021Article
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- Stroke secondary to giant-cell arteritis: A literature review.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2021Article
- Diagnostic Approaches for Large Vessel Vasculitides.Open access rheumatology : research and reviews · 2021Review
- Impaired Microcirculation and Vascular Hemodynamics in Relation to Macrocirculation in Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Ultrasound as a Biomarker in Rheumatic Diseases.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- High-Frequency Ultrasound of Multiple Arterial Areas Reveals Increased Intima Media Thickness, Vessel Wall Appearance, and Atherosclerotic Plaques in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.Frontiers in medicine · 2020Article
- [Large-vessel vasculitis-giant cell and Takayasu arteritis].Der Internist · 2019Article
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Abstract
Vasculitis is characterized by a circumferential vessel-wall thickening ('halo'), which can be visualized by modern imaging techniques. In particular, the resolution of ultrasound has increased to 0.1 mm. Ultrasound detects abnormalities that are pathognomonic even in arteries with a diameter below 1 mm. It is particularly helpful in the diagnosis of large-vessel vasculitides, such as classic temporal arteritis, large-vessel giant-cell arteritis (GCA), Takayasu arteritis and idiopathic aortitis. Echocardiography is important for determining cardiac involvement in Takayasu arteritis and also for examining the coronary arteries of children with suspected Kawasaki disease, which is a medium-vessel vasculitis. In small vessel vasculitides ultrasound has only a role for determining the distribution or organ involvement. Fast-track clinics for the diagnosis of GCA help to initiate treatment before complications such as blindness occur; patients receive appointments within 24 h in these clinics. Clinical examination and ultrasound of temporal and axillary arteries are performed by an experienced rheumatologist. In most cases this is able to determine if GCA is present. Temporal artery biopsy can be still carried out in ambivalent cases. The wall swelling of temporal arteries disappears after 2-3 weeks of glucocorticoid treatment. After 3 days of treatment, diagnosis becomes more difficult with ultrasound in some cases. In larger arteries, such as the axillary arteries, wall thickening disappears within months. It tends to be darker (more hypoechoic) in acute disease because of oedema.
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