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Case Report: 18 F-FDG PET-CT for Diagnosing Prosthetic Device-Related Infection in an Infant With CHD.
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Frontiers in pediatrics [Front Pediatr] 2021 Mar 08; Vol. 9, pp. 584741. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 08 (Print Publication: 2021). - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Patients who have undergone cardiac surgery using prosthetic devices have an increased risk of developing prosthetic device-related infection and mediastinitis. However, accurate diagnosis of prosthetic device-related infection can be difficult to evaluate and treat with antibiotic therapy alone. In recent years, <superscript>18</superscript> F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography ( <superscript>18</superscript> F-FDG PET-CT) has made promising contributions to detect infective endocarditis, pacemaker infections, or other inflammations. Nevertheless, <superscript>18</superscript> F-FDG PET-CT for congenital heart disease (CHD) with device infection has been sparsely reported. We present an infantile girl diagnosed with pulmonary atresia with a ventricular septal defect who underwent replacement of the right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery (RV-PA) conduit for improvement cyanosis. She developed high fever and was diagnosed with mediastinitis and bacteremia by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) on postoperative day 4. Mediastinal drainage and 6 weeks of antibiotic therapy improved her condition, but bacteremia flared up on postoperative day 56. Despite a long course of antibiotic therapy, she had two more recurrences of bacteremia with the detection of P. aeruginosa . Echocardiography and chest contrast CT showed no evidence of vegetation and mediastinitis. On postoperative day 115, <superscript>18</superscript> F-FDG PET-CT revealed an accumulation on the RV-PA conduit (SUV max 3.4). Finally, she developed an infectious ventricular pseudo-aneurysm on postoperative day 129 and underwent aneurysm removal and RV-PA conduit replacement on postoperative day 136. Our case showed the importance of <superscript>18</superscript> F-FDG PET-CT for diagnosing specific localization of prosthetic device-related infection which is hard to detect using other imaging techniques. It can be a useful diagnostic tool for infantile patients with CHD with cardiac prosthetic devices and improve subsequent clinical treatments.<br />Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.<br /> (Copyright © 2021 Kawamura, Ueno, Taimura, Matsuba, Imoto, Jinguji and Kawano.)
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2296-2360
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in pediatrics
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- 33763393
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.584741