Affiliation:
1. Kyiv City Clinical Hospital № 12, Ukraine
2. P.L. Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Kyiv
Abstract
The review examined the role of arterial inflammation in atherogenesis and the pathogenic factors responsible for the high risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among HIV-infected patients. Inflammation has been shown to play an important role in all phases of atherosclerotic CVD. HIV-infected patients have an increased tendency to CVD. The most effective radionuclide method of imaging the inflammatory process in the pathogenesis of CVD among HIV-infected people is F-18 FDG PET/CT. At the present stage, several ligands for visualization were synthesized, which were used to identify vascular inflammation in preclinical and clinical studies. These tracers, in addition to F-18 FDG, have significant potential for future use among HIV-infected patients.
Key words: atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, positron emission tomography, HIV infection.
Publisher
Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science