Role of 18F-FDG PET in patients with infectious endocarditis

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1093-1098

  Kestler, Martha ^a,b   Muñoz, Patricia ^a,c   Rodríguez Créixems, Marta ^a   Rotger, Amanda ^a   Jimenez Requena, Felisa ^a   Mari, Amaia ^a   Orcajo, Javier ^a   Hernández, Luis ^a   Alonso, Juan C ^a   Bouza, Emilio ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Infectious endocarditis diagnosis; Septic embolism

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ANUS DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RECTUM DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPTIC EMBOLISM; SPLEEN EMBOLISM; SPONDYLITIS; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TREATMENT DURATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ENDOCARDITIS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SEPSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEPSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84904119980     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.113.134981     Document Type: Article

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