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Volume 40, Issue 3 , Pages 348-354 , September 2010

Accuracy of FDG-PET–CT in the Diagnostic Work-up of Vascular Prosthetic Graft Infection

J.L.M. Bruggink
- Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30 001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
A.W.J.M. Glaudemans
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30 001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
B.R. Saleem
- Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30 001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
R. Meerwaldt
- Department of Surgery, Medisch Spectrum Twente, P.O. Box 50 000, 7500 KA, Enschede, The Netherlands
H. Alkefaji
- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30 001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
T.R. Prins
- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30 001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
R.H.J.A. Slart
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30 001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
C.J. Zeebregts
- Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30 001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +31 503613382; fax: +31 503611745.

Received 8 March 2010 ,Accepted 25 May 2010.

Coronal (A–C) and lateral (D–E) views of CT, FDG-PET and fused FDG-PET–CT image of a by culture proven infected vascular prosthetic graft. In this particular case, an 85-year-old female patient underw

Coronal (A–C) and lateral (D–E) views of CT, FDG-PET and fused FDG-PET–CT image of a by culture proven infected vascular prosthetic graft. In this particular case, an 85-year-old female patient underwent exclusion of an abdominal aortic aneurysm and replacement with an aorto-bi-iliac Dacron prosthetic graft. After 11 months the patient was re-admitted with clinical signs of prosthetic infection. CT was judged negative, but PET scanning clearly showed increased FDG uptake at the level of the prosthesis (visual grade IV, SUV 10.49, T/B ratio 9.1). Ultimately, Staphylococcus aureus was cultured from the graft.
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