SynthesisZeitschrift fur Rheumatologie2016
Diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG PET or PET/CT for large vessel vasculitis : A meta-analysis.
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- Advanced molecular imaging in large-vessel vasculitis: Adopting FDG-PET into a clinical workflow.Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology · 2023Review
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- 18-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography for large vessel vasculitis in clinical practice.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- The role of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/computed tomography in the diagnosis and monitoring of large vessel vasculitides - a review article.American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2023Review
- The role of PET/CT in disease activity assessment in patients with large vessel vasculitis.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
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- Use of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography to standardize clinical trial recruitment in Takayasu's arteritis.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2022Observational
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Abstract
objectiveThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography (18F-FDG PET) or positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for patients with large vessel vasculitis.
methodsBased on a search in the PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases, a meta-analysis was performed on the diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG PET or PET/CT in patients with large vessel vasculitis.
resultsA total of eight studies involving 400 subjects (170 vasculitis patients and 230 controls) were selected for meta-analysis. The pooled sensitivity and specificity of 18F-FDG PET or PET/CT were 75.9 % (95 % confidence interval, CI 68.7-82.1) and 93.0 % (95 % CI 88.9-96.0), respectively. The positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), and diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) were 7.267 (95 % CI 3.707-14.24), 0.303 (95 % CI 0.229-0.400), and 32.04 (95 % CI 13.08-78.45), respectively. The area under the curve (AUC) was 0.863 and the Q
conclusionThis meta-analysis of published studies demonstrates that 18F-FDG PET or PET/CT has good diagnostic accuracy for large vessel vasculitis and plays an important role in the diagnosis of this condition.
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