Paravalvular prosthetic valve abscess detected with 18FDG-PET/128-slice CT image fusion | Zendy

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Paravalvular prosthetic valve abscess detected with 18FDG-PET/128-slice CT image fusion

Author(s) -

Gudrun Feuchtner,

Fabian Plank,

Christian Uprimny,

Orest Chevtchik,

Silvana Mueller

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

european heart journal - cardiovascular imaging

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.576

H-Index - 92

eISSN - 2047-2412

pISSN - 2047-2404

DOI - 10.1093/ehjci/jer317

Subject(s) - medicine , radiology , abscess , nuclear medicine , surgery

A 74-year-old male with a mechanic aortic valve prosthesis presented with a transient ischaemic attack. The c-reactive protein level was slightly above normal with 1.09, 1.39, and 1.08 mg/dL monitored over 3 days. White blood count was normal. Two serial blood cultures were negative. d-dimer was elevated (1.101 µg/L). Transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) showed a paravalvular leak ( Figure 1 , Supplementary data online, Movie S1–S2 ), and an …

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