Methods Patients with AAAs are defined as male or female patients with asymptomatic,
symptomatic or ruptured AAA with fusiform dilatation. This document does not cover patients …

Background The use of synthetic material for reconstructive vascular surgery was first
reported during the early 1950s. Infection involving vascular graft prostheses is an …

After studying medicine at Hanover Medical School and philosophy and social psychology
at the Leibniz University Hanover, Omke E. Teebken joined the Christian Albrechts …

Aim The diagnosis, severity and extent of a sterile inflammation or a septic infection could be
challenging since there is not one single test able to achieve an accurate diagnosis. The …

The aim of this guideline is to provide general information about performing 18F-FDG PET or
PET/CT in inflammation and infection. We provide evidence for efficacy where it is available …

Objectives: This study evaluated the usefulness of fluorodesoxyglucose marked by fluorine-
18 (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) in …

Integrated positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with the glucose
analogue, 2-[18 F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG), is an evolving hybrid imaging technique …

Nuclear medicine imaging procedures play an important role in the assessment of
inflammatory diseases. With the advent of 3-dimensional anatomic imaging, there has been …

Background Vascular graft infection (VGI), a serious complication in vascular surgery, has a
high morbidity and mortality rate. The diagnosis is complicated by non-specific symptoms …

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of yet another promising application of 18F-
fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) imaging in the detection and …