Improving the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis in Prosthetic Valves and Intracardiac Devices with 18F-Fluordeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Angiography: Initial Results at an Infective Endocarditis Referral Center

Circulation

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1113-1126

  Pizzi, Mariá N ^a   Roque, Albert ^a   Fernández Hidalgo, Nuria ^a   Cuéllar Calabria, Hug ^a   Ferreira González, Ignacio ^b   Gonzàlez Alujas, Mariá T ^a   Oristrell, Gerard ^a   Gracia Sánchez, Laura ^a   González, Juan J ^a   Rodríguez Palomares, José ^a   Galinañes, Manuel ^a   Maisterra Santos, Olga ^a   Garcia Dorado, David ^a   Castell Conesa, Joan ^a   Almirante, Benito ^a   Aguadé Bruix, Santiago ^a   Tornos, Pilar ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

endocarditis; heart; positron emission tomography; tomography; valves

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG UPTAKE; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDITIS; PERIPROSTHETIC PSEUDOANEURYSM; PET-CT SCANNER; PLEUROPERICARDITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTPERICARDIOTOMY SYNDROME; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATITIS; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADIATION DOSE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOULDER ARTHRITIS; SINUSITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART VALVE DISEASES; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84942102179     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.015316     Document Type: Article

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