[Differentiation between vegetation and lead associated thrombus - role of PET scan in difficult diagnostic process].
Journal Title: Kardiologia Polska - Year 2010, Vol 68, Issue 7
Abstract
We report a case of a 59 year-old man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who developed a pathological structure attached to the lead of cardioverter-defibrillator that has been detected by echocardiography. The authors describe a difficult differential diagnostic process aiming at the differentiation between cardiac device-related infective endocarditis and lead-associated thrombus. Imaging of the heart with a pathological structure using PET scan seems to be useful in these clinical circumstances.
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Piotr Niewiński, Ewa A Jankowska, Aldona Cwynar, Katarzyna Wojtas, Dorota Kustrzycka-Kratochwil, Zofia Barg, Waldemar Banasiak
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