Targeting Cardiovascular Implant Infection: Multimodality and Molecular Imaging

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  Sohns, Jan M ^a   Bavendiek, Udo ^a   Ross, Tobias L ^a   Bengel, Frank M ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

echocardiography; endocarditis; infection; molecular imaging

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CARDIOVASCULAR INFECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFLAMMATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEUKOCYTE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; SEPTICEMIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WOUND HEALING; ADVERSE DEVICE EFFECT; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; INFECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85038403648     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.117.005376     Document Type: Article

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