Prosthetic Valve Candida Endocarditis: A Case Report with 18F-FDG-PET/CT as Part of the Diagnostic Workup.
Soile Pauliina SalomäkiAntti SarastePäivi Jalava-KarvinenLaura PiriläUlla HohenthalPublished in: Case reports in cardiology (2020)
Diagnosis of Candida spp. infective endocarditis (IE) is challenging, and diagnostic delays are common. We describe two patients with Candida spp. prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) and 18fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG-PET/CT) as a part of diagnostic workup. We also refer to 5 other cases we found from the published literature. These cases highlight that 18F-FDG-PET/CT can improve diagnostic accuracy in prosthetic valve Candida endocarditis.
Keyphrases
- positron emission tomography
- computed tomography
- candida albicans
- aortic valve
- mitral valve
- biofilm formation
- aortic stenosis
- pet ct
- pet imaging
- magnetic resonance imaging
- systematic review
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- coronary artery disease
- escherichia coli
- contrast enhanced
- randomized controlled trial
- staphylococcus aureus
- dual energy
- left ventricular
- magnetic resonance
- ejection fraction
- heart failure