The detection of infectious endocarditis may be enhanced by a repeat FDG-PET while maintaining patients on a ketogenic diet
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology(2022)
摘要
Background This study aims to determine whether the suppression of myocardial FDG uptake and detection of infectious endocarditis (IE) may be enhanced when FDG-PET is repeated on the next day while maintaining patients on a ketogenic diet in the interim. Methods Seventeen patients with definite IE underwent FDG-PET investigations both after a conventional metabolic preparation (> 12-hour fast after a low-carbohydrate evening meal) and a subsequent 12-hour extension of the low-carbohydrate diet followed by an additional > 12-hour fast. Results Plasma biomarkers showed increased ketogenic metabolism between the two FDG-PET scans. A myocardial FDG uptake persisted on the 1st PET in 9 patients (53%) for whom myocardial FDG uptake decreased significantly on the 2nd PET (SUVmax: 6.05 ± 3.25 vs 4.32 ± 3.47, P = 0.021), resulting in an enhancement in the diagnostic confidence of IE in 6 cases. These enhancements were not documented in the 8 patients exhibiting a total suppression of myocardial FDG uptake on the 1st PET. Conclusions Better suppression of myocardial uptake and enhanced detection of IE may be achieved when an FDG-PET, showing an incomplete suppression of the myocardial FDG uptake, is repeated as soon as the next day, while maintaining patients on a ketogenic diet in the interim.
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Infective endocarditis,low-carbohydrate diet,PET-FDG
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