Vasculitis & polymyalgia rheumatica
Comprehensive magnetic resonance imaging evaluation in a cohort of 145 patients with Takayasu's arteritis. Proposal for a standardised and systematic reporting format
Authors' conclusion
Comprehensive assessment of patients with TAK by MRI with a standardised and systematic reporting format is a tool that may allow better interdisciplinary communication in the study of this vasculitis.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with ≥4 TAK criteria who underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) between 2003–2024128 (88%) women
- Participants
- 145 patients
- Outcome
- Vascular and organic lesions on MRI (presence and type of vascular lesion by segment, impact on target organ)
Methodological detailsstandardised and systematic MRI reporting format, whole-body angiography and target-organ assessment
- Standardised and systematic MRI reporting format
- Whole-body angiography and target-organ assessment
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Vascular involvement on MRI angiography
- Most frequent angiographic classification
- Type V
- Cerebral involvement
- 27 (18%)
- Coronary involvement
- 12 (8.2%)
- Pulmonary involvement
- 25 (17%)
- Right renal involvement
- 50 (34%)
- Left renal involvement
- 42 (39%)
- Lower limb arteries involvement
- 48 (33%)
- Stroke
- 27 (19%)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Cardiac MRI findings (108 patients)
- Any cardiac abnormality
- 70 (65%)
- MI
- 10 (9.3 %)
- Aortic regurgitation
- 26 (17%)
- Mitral regurgitation
- 14 (8.3%)
- Complete AV-Block
- 1 (0.7%)
Original publication
Comprehensive magnetic resonance imaging evaluation in a cohort of 145 patients with Takayasu's arteritis. Proposal for a standardised and systematic reporting format. Clin Exp Rheumatol. Published 2 February 2025. doi:10.
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