Prosthetic Valve Candida Endocarditis: A Case Report with 18F-FDG-PET/CT as Part of the Diagnostic Workup

: Soile Pauliina Salomäki, Antti Saraste, Päivi Jalava-Karvinen, Laura Pirilä, Ulla Hohenthal

Publisher: HINDAWI LTD

: 2020

: Case reports in cardiology

: CASE REPORTS IN CARDIOLOGY

: CASE REP CARDIOL

: 4921380

: 2020

: 4

: 2090-6404

: 2090-6412

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/4921380

: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/51476916

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.

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