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01.04.2019 | Images that Teach
Diagnostic performance of FDG-PET/CTA in native mitral valve endocarditis
verfasst von:
Shoko Maeda, MD, Nobuhiro Tahara, MD, PhD, Fumitake Takase, MD, Munehisa Bekki, MD, Atsuko Tahara, MD, Akihiro Honda, MD, PhD, Sachiyo Igata, PhD, Yoichi Sugiyama, MD, Tomohisa Nakamura, MD, Jiahui Sun, MD, Seiji Kurata, MD, PhD, Kiminori Fujimoto, MD, PhD, Toshi Abe, MD, PhD, Yoshihiro Fukumoto, MD, PhD
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 2/2019
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Excerpt
Infective endocarditis is a life-threatening condition caused by microbial infection of heart valves.
18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission (FDG-PET) combined with computed tomography (CT) and CT angiography (CTA) were recently introduced as additional tools to diagnose prosthetic valve endocarditis in the most recent European Society of Cardiology guidelines on infective endocarditis.
1 However, the diagnosis of native valve endocarditis based on FDG-PET/CTA remains challenging. …