ArticleJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2018
Dual-time-point FDG PET/CT imaging in prosthetic heart valve endocarditis.
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- Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2023Article
- The Role of Positron Emission Tomography in Advancing the Understanding of the Pathogenesis of Heart and Vascular Diseases.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Procedural recommendations of cardiac PET/CT imaging: standardization in inflammatory-, infective-, infiltrative-, and innervation (4Is)-related cardiovascular diseases: a joint collaboration of the EACVI and the EANM.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2021Article
- F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the infection of heart.Yeungnam University journal of medicine · 2021Article
- Multimodality Imaging in the Diagnosis of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Brief Review.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Review
- Review of cardiovascular imaging in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2018. Part 1 of 2: Positron emission tomography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2019Review
- Another potential step to improve prosthetic heart valve endocarditis imaging withJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2018Article
- Recommendations on nuclear and multimodality imaging in IE and CIED infections.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2018Article
- FDG PET/CT in prosthetic heart valve endocarditis: There is no need to wait.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposeFDG PET/CT has been of increasing interest in the diagnostic workup of prosthetic heart valve endocarditis (PVE). Some reports advocate later imaging time points to improve the diagnostic accuracy for PVE. In this study, we compared standard and late FDG PET/CT images in patients with a clinical suspicion of PVE. MATERIALS AND
methodsFourteen scans in 13 patients referred for FDG PET/CT for suspicion of PVE performed at standard (60 min post injection) and late (150 min post injection) time points were scored based on visual interpretation and semi-quantitatively with SUVmax and target-to-background ratio (TBR, defined as [SUVmax valve/SUVmean blood pool]). Final diagnosis was based on surgical findings in all cases of infection (n = 6) and unremarkable follow-up in all others (n = 8).
resultsLate images were more prone to false positive interpretation for both visual and semi-quantitative analyses. Visual analysis of the standard images yielded 1 false negative and 1 false positive result. On the late images, no scans were false negative but 5 scans were false positive.
conclusionLate FDG PET/CT imaging for PVE seems prone to false positive results. Therefore, late imaging should be interpreted with caution.
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