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01-04-2018 | Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine
Light in the dark: 18F-FDG PET/CT in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia of unknown origin
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 4/2018
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An 81-year-old male patient with chronic kidney failure and prior trans-catheter aortic valve and pacemaker (PM) implantation (Fig. 1a) presented to the emergency department of our hospital with a 1-day history of severe, discontinuous, movement-linked high thoracic back pain.
Fig. 1
a Antero-posterior chest X-ray (arrowhead: pacemaker; arrow: biologic aortic valve). b Sagittal native CT scan without significant abnormalities in the dorsal vertebrae. c Sagittal 18F-FDG PET/CT scan showing intense radiotracer uptake around the second dorsal vertebra suggestive of spondylodiscitis (arrowhead). d Axial 18F-FDG PET/CT showing intense radiotracer uptake suggestive of septic foci along the subclavian portion of the pacemaker wires (arrow) and around the second dorsal vertebra (arrowhead)
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