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We report the case of a 72 year old man with clinical suspicion of giant cell arteritis (GCA); in this case 18F-FDG PET/CT has been useful from the diagnosis to the control of the response to therapy. He performed the first 18F-FDG PET/CT that showed increased uptake of 18F-FDG in the aortic arch, brachial artery, common iliac and femoral arteries and in the temporal cerebral sites bilaterally. The patient then began a cortisonic therapy that led straight to the improvement of clinical symptoms, and repeated 18F-FDG PET/CT 3 months later the beginning of therapy that showed reduced uptake in the same sites of the first 18F-FDG PET/CT.
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May 1995
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Istituto di Idrologia Medica.
Authors synthetically remind epidemiology, eziopathogenesis and clinic of ulcerative colitis; they after describe the drugs employed in therapy of disease, stressing the mechanism of action, efficacy, collateral effects. Authors remember the choice of cortisonic therapy in the acute and severe periods of disease and the specific activity of salazopyrine and its metabolite 5-aminosalycilic acid in the ulcerative colitis and refer about the use of drugs as immunodepressors, fatty acids omega 3, zileuton, short chain fatty acids. Practical patterns of therapy in the diverse stages and clinical forms of the disease are exposed.
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