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99mTc-labelled anti NCA-95 antibodies in prosthetic heart valve endocarditis
H J Bair1, W Becker, H J Volkholz
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, I, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, FRG.
Nuklearmedizin. Nuclear Medicine
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 54-y old women with earlier replacement of the mitral and aortic valves and clinical signs of localized endocarditis was studied with 99mTc-labelled anti NCA-95 antibody. Whereas echocardiographic findings were negative, increased radionuclide uptake was observed left parasternal over the mitral valve as a sign of prosthetic valve endocarditis. This result could be confirmed by a similar study with leukocytes labelled in vitro with 111In-oxine.