Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography: A complement to 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography in localizing pacemaker lead endocarditis.

We report a case where transesophageal echocardiography was complementary to FDG PET/CT in the diagnosis and localization of vegetation over pacemaker leads during intraoperative period. PMID: 33109819 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33109819?dopt=Abstract

Source: Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia - October 1, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Sarkar S, Ganesan R, Kumar B, Singh H, Basher R, Sood A Tags: Ann Card Anaesth Source Type: research

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