Effective Use of F-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography to Rule Out Prosthetic Aortic Valve as the Source of Infection

Several nuclear imaging techniques can be used to diagnose infectious and inflammatory processes. F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is a useful diagnostic technique to detect inflammation and infection quickly and accurately. We report the case o...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Pooja, Roberts, James T, Bezold, Samuel, Villanueva-Meyer, Javier, Nguyen, Quan D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7746009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354464
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11520
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author Agrawal, Pooja
Roberts, James T
Bezold, Samuel
Villanueva-Meyer, Javier
Nguyen, Quan D
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description Several nuclear imaging techniques can be used to diagnose infectious and inflammatory processes. F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is a useful diagnostic technique to detect inflammation and infection quickly and accurately. We report the case of a patient with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and recurrent bacterial infections where FDG PET/CT was used to identify the source of infection as sternal osteomyelitis and rule out suspected infection of the aortic valve prosthesis. 
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spelling pubmed-77460092020-12-21 Effective Use of F-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography to Rule Out Prosthetic Aortic Valve as the Source of Infection Agrawal, Pooja Roberts, James T Bezold, Samuel Villanueva-Meyer, Javier Nguyen, Quan D Cureus Radiology Several nuclear imaging techniques can be used to diagnose infectious and inflammatory processes. F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is a useful diagnostic technique to detect inflammation and infection quickly and accurately. We report the case of a patient with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and recurrent bacterial infections where FDG PET/CT was used to identify the source of infection as sternal osteomyelitis and rule out suspected infection of the aortic valve prosthesis.  Cureus 2020-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7746009/ /pubmed/33354464 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11520 Text en Copyright © 2020, Agrawal et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Radiology
Agrawal, Pooja
Roberts, James T
Bezold, Samuel
Villanueva-Meyer, Javier
Nguyen, Quan D
Effective Use of F-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography to Rule Out Prosthetic Aortic Valve as the Source of Infection
title Effective Use of F-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography to Rule Out Prosthetic Aortic Valve as the Source of Infection
title_full Effective Use of F-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography to Rule Out Prosthetic Aortic Valve as the Source of Infection
title_fullStr Effective Use of F-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography to Rule Out Prosthetic Aortic Valve as the Source of Infection
title_full_unstemmed Effective Use of F-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography to Rule Out Prosthetic Aortic Valve as the Source of Infection
title_short Effective Use of F-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography to Rule Out Prosthetic Aortic Valve as the Source of Infection
title_sort effective use of f-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography to rule out prosthetic aortic valve as the source of infection
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7746009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354464
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11520
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