Correspondence to ‘Slope sign’: a feature of large vessel vasculitis?
| Autor: | Marcin Milchert, Anne Bull Haaversen, Marek Brzosko, Andreas P. Diamantopoulos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
030203 arthritis & rheumatology
0301 basic medicine business.industry Immunology Subscapular artery Anatomy medicine.disease General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences Giant cell arteritis 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine Rheumatology Feature (computer vision) Large vessel vasculitis medicine.artery cardiovascular system medicine Immunology and Allergy cardiovascular diseases Brachial artery business Vasculitis Sign (mathematics) Systemic vasculitis |
| Zdroj: | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 80:e198-e198 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2060 0003-4967 |
| Popis: | We have read with great interest the observation of Dasgupta et al. 1 We would like to propose an extended definition of slope sign in giant cell arteritis (GCA) formerly named slide sign,2,3 and present our method of assessing it by using the anteromedial ultrasound examination method of the large supraaortic vessels.4 Slope sign is a pathologically increased intima-media thickness (IMT)5 that spreads over a long arterial segment and slides down to a normal brachial artery where a normal intima-media structure (double line) is observed. This definition contains a description of pathological findings in the axillary artery—a typical location for vasculitis in GCA, contrasting with normal findings in brachial artery—which is usually not involved by vasculitis.6 Slope sign may not be limited to the place of arterial bifurcation of the subscapular artery, which is a typical location of atherosclerotic plaque. A transition zone … |
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