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How would you approach a patient incidentally found to have PET avid large vessel vasculitis on CT angiogram during pre CABG workup?

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Rheumatology · Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Observational data from cohorts of patients with Takayasu arteritis has shown that patients with active vasculitis undergoing surgical intervention are more likely to require re-operation (e.g. Fields et al., PMID 16414389).

Based on such data, the ACR/VF guidelines for the management of large vessel...

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