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FDG PET/CT for evaluating systemic arterial inflammation induced by anthracycline-based chemotherapy of Hodgkin lymphoma: A retrospective cohort study.

Ismaheel O Lawal, Akintunde T Orunmuyi, Gbenga O Popoola, Thabo Lengana, Kgomotso M G Mokoala, Alfred O Ankrah, Mike M Sathekge

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Article in Medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Ismaheel O LawalDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria.
Akintunde T OrunmuyiDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.
Gbenga O PopoolaDepartment of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
Thabo LenganaDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria.
Kgomotso M G MokoalaDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria.
Alfred O AnkrahDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria.
Mike M SathekgeDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria.
University of Pretoria · ZASteve Biko Hospital · ZAUniversity of Groningen · NLUniversity of Ibadan · NGUniversity of Ilorin · NG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To evaluate arterial fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake as a marker of arterial inflammation in multiple vascular beds in patients treated with anthracycline-based chemotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma (HL).We used maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) and target-to-background ratio (TBR) to quantify arterial FDG uptake in the carotid artery, ascending aorta, abdominal aorta, and femoral artery obtained on positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging performed at baseline before chemotherapy and after completion of chemotherapy in patients with HL treated with an anthracycline-containing regimen. We compared the SUVmax and TBR obtained at baseline with that obtained post-chemotherapy for each arterial bed to evaluate the effect of anthracycline-based chemotherapy. We evaluated the effect of cardiovascular risk factors such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, smoking, hypertension, and diabetes on the changes in SUVmax and TBR seen in the different arterial beds after anthracycline-based chemotherapy.Fifty-two patients were included with a mean age of 34.56 ± 10.19 years. There were 33 males, and 18 patients were HIV-infected. The mean interval between completion of chemotherapy and follow-up flourine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) scan was 65 weeks. We found no significant difference in arterial FDG uptake measured by SUVmax and TBR in all arterial beds between the pre- and post-chemotherapy FDG PET/CT. There was no significant impact of HIV infection, smoking, and hypertension on the changes in arterial FDG uptake following treatment with anthracycline-based chemotherapy.In patients with HL who were treated with anthracycline-based chemotherapy, we found no significant increase in arterial inflammation measured by FDG PET/CT after an average follow-up period of about 65 weeks since completion of chemotherapy.

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