THE CLINICAL UTILITY OF 18F-FDG POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN VERSUS 99MTC-HMPAO WHITE BLOOD CELL SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY IN THE EXTRA-CARDIAC WORK-UP OF PATIENTS WITH DUKE DEFINITE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS

THE CLINICAL UTILITY OF 18F-FDG POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN VERSUS 99MTC-HMPAO WHITE BLOOD CELL SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY IN THE EXTRA-CARDIAC WORK-UP OF PATIENTS WITH DUKE DEFINITE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS

Clinical utility was determined by 4 criteria converted into an ordinal scale with values from 0 to 4; (1) Findings identified were not found by traditional imaging modalities; (2) Findings implicated treatment choice or duration of treatment; (3) Findings prompted further investigation with novel c...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2016-04, Vol.67 (13), p.1815-1815
Hauptverfasser: Lauridsen, Trine K, Iversen, Kasper, Ihlemann, Nikolaj, Hasbak, Philip, Jakobsen, Annika Loft, Berthelsen, Anne Kiil, Dahl, Anders, Dejanovic, Danijela, Albrecht-Beste, Elisabeth, Mortensen, Jann, Kjaer, Andreas, Bundgaard, Henning, Bruun, Niels Eske
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Sprache:eng
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Cardiology
Cardiovascular
Internal Medicine
Medical imaging
Patients
Tomography
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Zusammenfassung:Clinical utility was determined by 4 criteria converted into an ordinal scale with values from 0 to 4; (1) Findings identified were not found by traditional imaging modalities; (2) Findings implicated treatment choice or duration of treatment; (3) Findings prompted further investigation with novel clinical findings or (4) foci found were silent lesions.
ISSN:0735-1097
1558-3597
DOI:10.1016/S0735-1097(16)31816-2