Andrej Ćorović, Christopher Wall, Meritxell Nus, Deepa Gopalan, Yuan Huang, Maria Imaz, Michal Zulcinski, Marta Peverelli, Anna Uryga, Jordi Lambert, Dario Bressan, Robert T Maughan, Charis Pericleous, Suraiya Dubash, Natasha Jordan, David R Jayne, Stephen P Hoole, Patrick A Calvert, Andrew F Dean, Doris Rassl, Tara Barwick, Mark Iles, Mattia Frontini, Greg Hannon, Roido Manavaki, Tim D Fryer, Luigi Aloj, Martin J Graves, Fiona J Gilbert, Marc R Dweck, David E Newby, Zahi A Fayad, Gary Reynolds, Ann W Morgan, Eric O Aboagye, Anthony P Davenport, Helle F Jørgensen, Ziad Mallat, Martin R Bennett, James E Peters, James H F Rudd, Justin C Mason, Jason M Tarkin
BACKGROUND: Assessing inflammatory disease activity in large vessel vasculitis (LVV) can be challenging by conventional measures. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to investigate somatostatin receptor 2 (SST2 ) as a novel inflammation-specific molecular imaging target in LVV. METHODS: In a prospective, observational cohort study, in vivo arterial SST2 expression was assessed by positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) using 68 Ga-DOTATATE and 18 F-FET-βAG-TOCA...
January 31, 2023: Journal of the American College of Cardiology