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Multimodality cardiovascular imaging in the diagnosis and management of prosthetic valve infective endocarditis in children report of two cases and brief review of the literature

Part of: Advanced Imaging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2019

Ariya Chau Open the ORCID record for Ariya Chau [Opens in a new window] ,
Pierangelo Renella  and
Antonio Arrieta
Ariya Chau*
Affiliation:
UCI/CHOC Pediatric Residency Program, Orange, CA, USA
Pierangelo Renella
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiology, CHOC Children’s Hospital, Orange, CA, USA Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine College of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA
Antonio Arrieta
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine College of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA Divison of Infectious Disease, CHOC Children’s Hospital, Orange, CA, USA
*
Author for correspondence: A. Chau, UC Irvine/CHOC Residency Program, 505 South Main Street, Suite 525, Orange, CA 92868, USA. Tel: +916-420-8347; E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Diagnosing prosthetic valve infective endocarditis in children is challenging. Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography can yield false-negative results. Data are lacking in paediatric multimodality imaging in prosthetic valve infective endocarditis. We present two children with repaired CHD where initial echocardiogram was non-diagnostic, while CT angiogram and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in combination with CT angiography, respectively, confirmed the diagnosis of endocarditis affecting clinical management.

Keywords

Advanced cardiovascular imagingCHDcomputed tomography angiographyechocardiographyinfective endocarditisFDG-positron emission tomographypaediatricsprosthetic valve
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 29 , Issue 12 , December 2019 , pp. 1526 - 1529
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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All authors have seen and approved the manuscript.

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