Nuclear Medicine in Diagnosis of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: An Update

Table 3

Minor criteria for the diagnosis of prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) [6].

(i) Predisposition, predisposing heart condition, or injection drug use; (ii) Fever, temperature ≥38°C; (iii) Vascular phenomena: major arterial emboli, septic pulmonary infarcts, mycotic aneurysm, intracranial hemorrhage, and conjunctival hemorrhages; (iv) Janeway lesions; (v) Immunological phenomena: glomerulonephritis, Osler nodes, Roth spots, and rheumatoid factor; (vi) Microbiological evidence: positive blood culture but does not meet a major criterion as noted above or serological evidence of active infection with organism consistent with infective endocarditis