Beyond Venous Inflammation: Vessel Wall Imaging of Intracranial Arteries in Neuro‐Behçet's Syndrome
Esra Kochan Kizilkilic, Bora Korkmazer, Nursena Erener, Ahmet Kursat Karaman, Abdullah Arcan, Serdar Arslan, Aksel Siva, Emire Seyahi, Ugur Uygunoglu, Osman Kizilkilic · 2026
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Description
Kizilkilic and colleagues use a special MRI method to look at the walls of brain arteries in neuro-Behçet syndrome, an inflammatory disease long known for vein problems. Standard scans show the channel inside a vessel, not its wall, so early wall disease can hide. Their 2026 study scans 39 patients, some during an attack and some between attacks, and rates 1,170 artery segments for wall thickening and contrast uptake, a sign of active inflammation.
Wall involvement appeared in 16 patients, about two in five, and sat mostly in the back of the brain's circulation. The common pattern was even, ring like thickening without contrast uptake. Patients scanned during attacks showed wall changes far more often than patients scanned in quiet periods, and contrast uptake appeared only during attacks. Worse disability scores tracked with wall disease across three or more back circulation segments, a clue for grading severity.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Esra Kochan Kizilkilic, Bora Korkmazer, Nursena Erener, Ahmet Kursat Karaman, Abdullah Arcan, Serdar Arslan, Aksel Siva, Emire Seyahi, Ugur Uygunoglu, Osman Kizilkilic |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |