Erschienen in:
01.06.2010 | Nuclear Cardiology Bullet
Infected pacemaker causing septic lung emboli detected on FDG PET/CT
verfasst von:
Gad Abikhzer, Sophie Turpin, Jean-Luc Bigras
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 3/2010
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Excerpt
An 8-year old girl was admitted to the hospital after presenting to the emergency room with fever. Blood cultures came back positive for Staphylococcus aureus. The patient had an endovascular pacemaker insertion for congenital atrioventricular (AV) block after progressing to complete heart block almost one year prior to hospitalization with fever. History, physical, laboratory examination, abdominal ultrasound, and a transthoracic echocardiogram did not identify an infectious source. The patient underwent an 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan for the evaluation of fever of unknown origin. The PET scan was done 71 min post-administration of 5.44 mCi (201.28 MBq) of F-18 FDG after fasting. …