Detection of infection of a cardiac xenograft by gallium-67 scan.
We describe a case complicated by infection of a xenograft conduit with subsequent septic emboli to the left kidney in the setting of pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect which was positively imaged using radioactive gallium-67. Confirmation was provided by cross-sectional echocardiography and positive blood culture. The patient improved with antibiotic therapy.
D000293:Adolescent; D001705:Bioprosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology
D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes