Nuclear Imaging in Infective Endocarditis

• Published in: Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 15; no. 1; p. 14
• Main Authors: Mikail, Nidaa, Hyafil, Fabien
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 22.12.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: Abscesses; cardiac implanted electronic device; Endocarditis; Fatty acids; Glucose; Infections; infective endocarditis; left ventricular assistance device; Metabolism; Mortality; native valve endocarditis; Nuclear medicine; prosthetic valve endocarditis; Review; Scintigraphy; Tomography; vascular graft infection; cardiac implanted electronic device; infective endocarditis; nuclear medicine; scintigraphy; left ventricular assistance device; 18F-FDG; native valve endocarditis; positron emission tomography; prosthetic valve endocarditis; white blood cell scintigraphy; vascular graft infection

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening disease with stable prevalence despite prophylactic, diagnostic, and therapeutic advances. In parallel to the growing number of cardiac devices implanted, the number of patients developing IE on prosthetic valves and cardiac implanted electronic devi...