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Difficulties in diagnosis of aortobifemoral graft infection
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Abstract
The number of complications increases together with the growing number of vascular procedures. Vascular graft infection (VGI) still remains the most serious complication in vascular surgery. The purpose of this report is to present the difficulties in vascular prosthesis infection diagnostics despite the use of various diagnostic methods, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and Technetium-99m —labeled leukocyte scan (99mTC-HMPAO). It is possible that the spread of modern diagnostic methods, such as PET/SPECT/CT will help to increase the diagnostic efficiency of vascular graft infections, especially in the era of ever- increasing number of endovascular procedures, which also carry the risk of infection.
Abstract
The number of complications increases together with the growing number of vascular procedures. Vascular graft infection (VGI) still remains the most serious complication in vascular surgery. The purpose of this report is to present the difficulties in vascular prosthesis infection diagnostics despite the use of various diagnostic methods, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and Technetium-99m —labeled leukocyte scan (99mTC-HMPAO). It is possible that the spread of modern diagnostic methods, such as PET/SPECT/CT will help to increase the diagnostic efficiency of vascular graft infections, especially in the era of ever- increasing number of endovascular procedures, which also carry the risk of infection.
Keywords
infection, leucocytes, MRI, PET, vascular prosthesis, scintigraphy, Technetium, computed tomography
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Difficulties in diagnosis of aortobifemoral graft infection
Journal
Chirurgia Polska (Polish Surgery)
Issue
Pages
98-103
Published online
2014-01-09
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Bibliographic record
Chirurgia Polska 2013;15(1):98-103.
Keywords
infection
leucocytes
MRI
PET
vascular prosthesis
scintigraphy
Technetium
computed tomography
Authors
Marek Drążkiewicz
Mariusz Góral
Bartłomiej Główka
Krzysztof Pietrzak
