title: Gallium SPECT/CT for permanent catheter infection.
abstract: We present a case of permanent catheter infection demonstrated by gallium SPECT/CT. The patient is a 71-year-old woman with a history of end-stage renal disease under hemodialysis via permanent catheter due to arteriovenous graft occlusion. This time, she had fever, chills, and leukocytosis. Whole-body gallium scan showed uptake to the right clavicular region, and the SPECT/CT study showed that the uptake area was localized to the catheter line of the right neck permanent catheter. Culture of the removed catheter grew coagulase-negative staphylococci.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Chiayi; †School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Tzyy-Ling
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Chuang
authors.forename: Yuh-Feng
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D055499:Catheter-Related Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D051598:Whole Body Imaging
chemical_list: D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes