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A "Ring of Fire" Around the Heart: Pericarditis Detected by FDG-PET/CT

by
Giorgio Treglia
1,2,3,4,*,
Mariana Raditchkova
1,
Luca Ceriani
1 and
Luca Giovanella
1
1
Clinic of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Centre, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
2
Health Technology Assessment Unit, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
3
Clinical Trial Unit, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
4
Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Lausanne University Hospital, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Cardiovasc. Med. 2018, 21(9), 234; https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2018.00576
Submission received: 19 June 2018 / Revised: 19 July 2018 / Accepted: 19 August 2018 / Published: 19 September 2018

Abstract

FDG-PET/CT enables direct visualisation of inflammatory activity and may represent a useful tool for diagnosis, risk stratification and therapy monitoring in patients with pericarditis.

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Treglia, G.; Raditchkova, M.; Ceriani, L.; Giovanella, L. A "Ring of Fire" Around the Heart: Pericarditis Detected by FDG-PET/CT. Cardiovasc. Med. 2018, 21, 234. https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2018.00576

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Treglia G, Raditchkova M, Ceriani L, Giovanella L. A "Ring of Fire" Around the Heart: Pericarditis Detected by FDG-PET/CT. Cardiovascular Medicine. 2018; 21(9):234. https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2018.00576

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Treglia, Giorgio, Mariana Raditchkova, Luca Ceriani, and Luca Giovanella. 2018. "A "Ring of Fire" Around the Heart: Pericarditis Detected by FDG-PET/CT" Cardiovascular Medicine 21, no. 9: 234. https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2018.00576

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Treglia, G., Raditchkova, M., Ceriani, L., & Giovanella, L. (2018). A "Ring of Fire" Around the Heart: Pericarditis Detected by FDG-PET/CT. Cardiovascular Medicine, 21(9), 234. https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2018.00576

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