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. 2023 Oct;30(5):2096-2103.
doi: 10.1007/s12350-023-03339-8. Epub 2023 Jul 31.

Real world experience of therapeutic monitoring of medically treated prosthetic valve infective endocarditis by 18F-FDG-PET/CT

L Bucy  1 , M L Erpelding  2 , C Boursier  3 , B Lefevre  4   5 , C Alauzet  6 , Y Liu  7 , E Chevalier  3 , O Huttin  8 , N Agrinier  2 , C Selton-Suty  8 , F Goehringer  4 ; AEPEI study group (Association pour l’Étude et la Prévention de l’Endocardite Infectieuse)
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Real world experience of therapeutic monitoring of medically treated prosthetic valve infective endocarditis by 18F-FDG-PET/CT

L Bucy et al. J Nucl Cardiol. 2023 Oct.

Abstract

Introduction: 18F-FDG-PET/CT is recommended to improve the diagnosis of prosthetic valve infective endocarditis (PVIE) and is a major criterion in the ESC-2015 classification. However, there is little evidence for its usefulness in the follow-up of medically treated PVIE patients.

Methods: A monocentric retrospective analysis of patients hospitalized for PVIE between January 2013 and December 2019 who were not treated with surgery and who had at least two 18F-FDG-PET/CT examinations during their medical management.

Results: Among 170 patients with PVIE, 117 were treated with antibiotic therapy but no surgery. Of these, 36 (31%) had at least two 18F-FDG-PET/CT examinations. At initial imaging, 28 patients had heterogeneous FDG uptake on their prosthetic valve and eight on their associated aortic graft. Hypermetabolism of spleen and bone marrow (HSBM) was observed in 18 and 19 patients, respectively. At the first follow-up 18F-FDG-PET/CT, 21 (58%) patients still had heterogeneous uptake, indicating persistent active endocarditis. HSBM was still present at the last follow-up imaging in four of the six patients with recurrent PVIE.

Conclusion: 18F-FDG-PET/CT monitoring of medically treated patients with PVIE provides valuable additional information and prospective multicentric study should be conducted to assess its usefulness.

Keywords: 18F-FDG-PET/CT; hypermetabolism of spleen and bone marrow; infective endocarditis; therapeutic monitoring.

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