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  • Title: [Differentiation between vegetation and lead associated thrombus - role of PET scan in difficult diagnostic process].
    Author: Niewiński P, Jankowska EA, Cwynar A, Wojtas K, Kustrzycka-Kratochwil D, Barg Z, Banasiak W, Ponikowski P.
    Journal: Kardiol Pol; 2010 Jul; 68(7):797-801. PubMed ID: 20648440.
    Abstract:
    We report a case of a 59 year-old man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who developed a pathological structure attached to the lead of cardioverter-defibrillator that has been detected by echocardiography. The authors describe a difficult differential diagnostic process aiming at the differentiation between cardiac device-related infective endocarditis and lead-associated thrombus. Imaging of the heart with a pathological structure using PET scan seems to be useful in these clinical circumstances.
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