TY - JOUR
T1 - Uptake of FDG in the area of a recently implanted bioprosthetic mitral valve
AU - Abidov, Aiden
AU - D'Agnolo, Alessandro
AU - Hayes, Sean W.
AU - Berman, Daniel S.
AU - Waxman, Alan D.
PY - 2004/12
Y1 - 2004/12
N2 - A 74-year-old woman with history of melanoma, left breast cancer and status post left mastectomy, underwent FDG PET scanning as a part of a pulmonary nodule assessment. Two months before the scan the patient had undergone mitral valve replacement using a Hancock-2 porcine prosthesis due to severe mitral regurgitation. The PET scan demonstrated a circular rim of activity in the region of the mitral valve, but was otherwise negative. Additional workup to exclude a possible infectious process of the valve prosthesis was negative. The finding is most likely secondary to a nonspecific postsurgical inflammatory response in the area of the recently implanted artificial valve.
AB - A 74-year-old woman with history of melanoma, left breast cancer and status post left mastectomy, underwent FDG PET scanning as a part of a pulmonary nodule assessment. Two months before the scan the patient had undergone mitral valve replacement using a Hancock-2 porcine prosthesis due to severe mitral regurgitation. The PET scan demonstrated a circular rim of activity in the region of the mitral valve, but was otherwise negative. Additional workup to exclude a possible infectious process of the valve prosthesis was negative. The finding is most likely secondary to a nonspecific postsurgical inflammatory response in the area of the recently implanted artificial valve.
KW - Bioprosthetic mitral valve
KW - F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose
KW - Positron emission tomographic scintigraphy
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U2 - 10.1097/00003072-200412000-00028
DO - 10.1097/00003072-200412000-00028
M3 - Article
C2 - 15545904
AN - SCOPUS:9344265791
SN - 0363-9762
VL - 29
SP - 848
JO - Clinical nuclear medicine
JF - Clinical nuclear medicine
IS - 12
ER -