Supporting imaging modalities for improving diagnosis of prosthesis endocarditis: Preliminary results of a single-center experience with 18F-FDG-PET/CT

Minerva Medica

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 299-304

  Kokalova, Anna ^a   Dell'aquila, Angelo M ^a   Avramovic, Nemanja ^a   Martens, Sven ^a   Wenning, Christian ^a   Sindermann, Jürgen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Heart valve prosthesis; Infection; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ABSCESS; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; AORTIC ROOT SURGERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN INFARCTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR RING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOCARDITIS; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85022336274     PISSN: 00264806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.23736/S0026-4806.17.04976-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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