Table 1.
Characteristics of the study patients.
| Patient number | Age (years) |
Gender | Comorbidities | Time from starting antibiotics to 18F-FDG PET/CT (days) | Time from starting antibiotics to 68Ga-citrate PET/CT (days) | CRP on 18F-FDG PET/CT (mg/l) |
CRP on 68Ga-citrate PET/CT (mg/l) |
Complications from S. aureus bacteraemia based on routine exams, PET/CTs, and follow-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | 66 | F | Atopic eczema | 10 | 11 | 92 | 109 | Meningitis, vertebral osteomyelitis, paravertebral abscesses, multiple infectious foci in soft tissues |
| (2) | 70 | F | Liver cirrhosis, type 2 diabetes, generalised atherosclerosis, HTN | 6 | 5 | 14 | 14 | Vertebral osteomyelitis, pneumonia |
| (3) | 66 | M | Cardiomyopathy, HTN, asthma, cardiac pacemaker | 5 | 4 | 105 | 291 | Osteomyelitis in toe and feet |
| (4) | 86 | M | COPD, immunosuppressive medication due to chronic dermatology disease | 8 | 12 | 146 | 83 | Vertebral osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, multiple infectious foci in soft tissues |
F, female; M, male; HTN, hypertension; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CRP, C-reactive protein.