Davidovic Lazar, Tsay Viktoriya
Clinic for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Clinical Centre of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Department of Vascular Surgery, Tashkent Medical Academy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Ann Vasc Surg. 2019 Nov;61:468.e9-468.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.avsg.2019.04.044. Epub 2019 Jul 31.
The case report describes our first experience of "diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging with background body signal suppression" (DWIBS) application for disease activity assessment in a young female patient with Takayasu arteritis (TA). Despite the normal level of inflammatory markers, clinical signs of disease recurrence were present. In our case, DWIBS did not only help to identify the disease recurrence in the patient with false-negative inflammatory markers but also revealed new foci involved in the TA process. DWIBS can be a potentially new imaging method, useful during the follow-up in patients with TA.
该病例报告描述了我们首次将“背景体部信号抑制扩散加权全身成像”（DWIBS）应用于一名年轻女性高安动脉炎（TA）患者疾病活动度评估的经验。尽管炎症标志物水平正常，但仍存在疾病复发的临床体征。在我们的病例中，DWIBS不仅有助于识别炎症标志物呈假阴性的患者的疾病复发，还揭示了TA病程中涉及的新病灶。DWIBS可能是一种潜在的新型成像方法，对TA患者的随访有用。
