Potential usefulness of ⁶⁸Ga-citrate PET/CT in detecting infected lower limb prostheses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prosthetic joint infections may lead to failures of total joint arthroplasty. Radionuclide imaging can play a diagnostic role in identifying such infections, which require two-stage exchange arthroplasty (instead of simple revision surgery performed in non-infected cases). Although ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT has emerged as a novel diagnostic tool in this setting, the clinical usefulness of ⁶⁸Ga-citrate PET/CT has not been previously investigated. This single-center prospective study was designed to address this issue.

Methods

Between January 2016 and October 2017, we examined 34 patients with clinically proven or suspected prosthetic hip/knee joint infections scheduled to undergo surgery. All patients underwent ⁶⁸Ga-citrate PET/CT scans and se

SUBMITTER: Tseng JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6318156 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature