Role of radionuclide imaging for diagnosis of device and prosthetic valve infections

Figure 6 European Society of Cardiology 2015 algorithm for diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Reprinted from Habib G, Lancelloti P, Antunes MJ, Bongiorni MG, Casalta JP, Del Zotti F, Dulgheru R, El Khoury G, Erba PA, Iung B, Miro JM, Mulder BJ, Plonska-Gosciniak E, Price S, Roos-Hesselink J, Snygg-Martin U, Thuny F, Tornos Mas P, Vilacosta I, Zamorano JL; Document Reviewers, Erol Ç, Nihoyannopoulos P, Aboyans V, Agewall S, Athanassopoulos G, Aytekin S, Benzer W, Bueno H, Broekhuizen L, Carerj S, Cosyns B, De Backer J, De Bonis M, Dimopoulos K, Donal E, Drexel H, Flachskampf FA, Hall R, Halvorsen S, Hoen B, Kirchhof P, Lainscak M, Leite-Moreira AF, Lip GY, Mestres CA, Piepoli MF, Punjabi PP, Rapezzi C, Rosenhek R, Siebens K, Tamargo J, Walker DM. 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of infective endocarditis: The Task Force for the Management of Infective Endocarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Endorsed by: European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, the European Association of Nuclear Medicine. Eur Heart J 2015; 36: 3075-3128. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press (UK)© European Society of Cardiology, http://www.escardio.org/. This image/content is not covered by the terms of the Creative Commons license of this publication. For permission to reuse, please contact the rights holder). ^aMay include cerebral MRI, whole body CT, and/or PET/CT; CT: Computed tomography; FDG: Fluorodeoxyglucose IE: Infective endocarditis; PET: Positron emission tomography; SPECT: Single-photon emission computed tomography; TTE: Transthoracic echocardiography; ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT: ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography.