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Table 1 General characteristics of 17 c-TA patients

From: Does [18F]F-FDG-PET/MRI add metabolic information to magnetic resonance image in childhood-onset Takayasu’s arteritis patients? A multicenter case series

Features

Patients (17)

Current age, years

18.7 (15.7–20.7)

Median disease duration, years

10.4 (7.0–11.6)

Diagnosis delay, months

11.0 (4.0–30.0)

Clinical remission disease, n (%)

16 (94)

Elevated APR, n (%)

6 (35.3)

Positive PET, n (%)

15 (88.2)

Positive MRA, n (%)

10 (58.8)

Imunossupressive therapy, n (%)

8 (50)

Combined therapy with biologic agents, n (%)

8 (50)

Off medication

1 (5.9)

  1. Numerical values are presented in mean (± SD) or median (IQR) according to normality tests, APR acute phase reactants, PET positron emission tomography, MRA magnetic resonance angiography