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

doi:10.1155/2020/4921380

Case Reports in Cardiology (Jan 2020)

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

Affiliations

Soile Pauliina Salomäki: Department of infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
Antti Saraste: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Päivi Jalava-Karvinen: Department of infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
Laura Pirilä: Department of infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
Ulla Hohenthal: Department of infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/4921380
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2020

Abstract

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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.

Published in Case Reports in Cardiology

ISSN: 2090-6404 (Print); 2090-6412 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/4208

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