Contributory role of fluorine 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the diagnosis and clinical management of infections in patients supported with a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device presented at the fifty-first Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, San Diego, CA, Jan 24-28, 2015.

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 87-94

  Dell'Aquila, Angelo Maria ^a   Mastrobuoni, Stefano ^a   Alles, Sebastian ^a   Wenning, Christian ^a   Henryk, Welp ^a   Schneider, Stefan Rudolf Bertram ^a   Deschka, Heinz ^a   Sindermann, Jürgen R ^a   Scherer, Mirela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTINUOUS FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; DRIVELINE INFECTION; ERYSIPELAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFORMATION; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT FEVER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FOLLOW UP; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84954155175     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.06.066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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