Review Article
Nuclear Medicine in Diagnosis of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: An Update
Table 4
Nuclear medicine (NM) in the diagnosis of prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE): review of the literature.
| NM imaging modalities | Number of articles/number of patients | Type of paper/reference/year |
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18F-FDG-PET/TC | 1/not valuable | Review/[8]/2013 | 1/72 | Prospective study/[7]/2013 | 2/2 | Case report/[9, 10]/2013, 2009 | 1/6 | Case series/[11]/2014 |
| CT angiography and 18F-FDG-PET | 1/7 | Case series/[12]/2013 |
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111Indium labeled leukocytes scintigraphy | 2/2 | Case report/[13, 14]/1990, 1988 | 1/2 | Case series/[15]/1989 |
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67Gallium citrate-SPECT and SPECT/TC | 4/4 | Case report/[16ā19]/2005, 2009, 2002, 1991 |
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99mTechnetium-HMPAO-WBC-SPECT/TC | 1/131 | Prospective study/[20]/2012 | 1/42 | Prospective study/[21]/2013 |
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99mTechnetium anti-G mAb-SPECT | 1/1 | Case report/[22]/1991 | 1/38 | Prospective study/[23]/1995 |
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FDG: fluorodeoxyglucose; PET/TC: positron emission tomography/computed tomography; CT: computed tomography; SPECT/TC: single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography; HMPAO: hexamethylpropylene amine oxime; WBC: white blood cells; anti-G mAb: anti-human granulocytes antibodies.
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