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European Heart Journal 2008 29(9):1212; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm539
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Visualization of pericarditis with fluoro-deoxy-glucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography

Klaus Strobel1,*, Roland Schuler2 and Michele Genoni3

1 Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Medical Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistr. 100, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
2 Institute of Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
3 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

* Corresponding author. Tel: +41 44 255 28 50, Fax: +41 44 255 44 14. Email: klaus.strobel@usz.ch

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A 38-year-old man presented with recurrent fever, night sweat, retrosternal pain, and vomiting. Laboratory test failed to identify a viral or bacterial agent. The patient did not respond to antibiotics. Transoesophageal echocardiography showed pericardial effusion and no valvular vegetations. The patient was referred to fluoro-deoxy-glucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) to identify an infectious focus. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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