What Lies Within?: Imaging to Detect Ventricular Assist Device Infection

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¹ Division of Cardiology and the CardioVascular Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston Massachusetts. Electronic address: mkiernan@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.
² Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

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Michael S Kiernan et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Apr.

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. 2019 Apr;12(4):730-732.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.04.035. Epub 2018 Dec 12.

¹ Division of Cardiology and the CardioVascular Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston Massachusetts. Electronic address: mkiernan@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.
² Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.

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Keywords: PET/CT; fluorodeoxyglucose; heart failure; infection; left ventricular assist device.

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FDG PET/CT for Early Detection and Localization of Left Ventricular Assist Device Infection: Impact on Patient Management and Outcome.
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