Erschienen in:
21.12.2021 | Editorial
18F-FDG PET/CT: Not only a promise for complex scenarios—let’s talk about aortic grafts
verfasst von:
Albert Roque, María Nazarena Pizzi
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 6/2022
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Excerpt
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a serious disease associated with high morbidity and mortality. Due to its highly variable clinical presentation, diagnosis of IE is challenging, and relies fundamentally on microbiological evidence and imaging demonstration of IE-related anatomical lesions. Diagnosis has traditionally been based on the modified Duke criteria (DC), where echocardiography has played a central role in patient assessment. However, IE involves not only infected native cardiac valves, but also possible infection of prosthetic heart valves (PHV), cardiac implantable electronic devices, and other intracardiac prosthetic material. In these clinical scenarios, diagnosis is even more challenging, especially due to the greater complexity of echocardiography, limiting the performance of the Duke criteria and, therefore, making it difficult to reach a conclusive diagnosis in many patients.
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