Absence of infective endocarditis relapse when end-of-treatment fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography is negative

Abstract

In this series of 62 patients with non-operated IE who underwent EOT FDG-PET/CT, those with a negative scan (almost half of the study population) did not develop IE relapse after a median follow-up of 10 months. These findings need to be confirmed by prospective and larger studies.