Adding or selecting imaging modalities for incremental diagnosis: A case study of 18FDG PET/CT in prosthetic valve endocarditis

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1020-1021

  Dilsizian, Vasken ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^b   Narula, Jagat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; INDIUM 111; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE STUDY; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EMBOLISM; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; PUBLICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84883887194     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.07.005     Document Type: Editorial

References (2)

1. 18F-FDG-PET Fusion Imaging for Prosthetic Heart Valve Endocarditis J Am Coll Cardiol Img 6 2013 1008 1013
2. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake as a novel major criterion J Am Coll Cardiol 61 2013 2374 2382