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Evaluation of 99mTechnetium-Vancomycin Imaging Potential in Experimental Rat Model for the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis

Author(s): Tuba Tatlı Kış*, Şükran Köse , Osman Yılmaz, Mehmet Kış, Fatma Yurt, Emine Acar, Recep Bekiş, Canberk Yılmaz, Mustafa Barış, Gülden Diniz, Bengü Tatar and Ayça Tunçel

Volume 17, Issue 6, 2021

Published on: 29 December, 2020

Page: [781 - 789] Pages: 9

DOI: 10.2174/1573405616666201229161850

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Abstract

Background: Infective endocarditis (IE) is an infection of the heart’s endocardial surface. In recent years, nuclear imaging methods have gained importance in the diagnosis of IE. The present study aims to investigate the imaging potential of 99mTc-labeled vancomycin (99mTc-Vancomycin) as a new agent that would enable the diagnosis of IE in its early stages when it is difficult to diagnose or has small vegetation in the experimental rat model.

Methods:99mTc-Vancomycin scintigraphy was evaluated for its accumulation in IE with Staphylococcus aureus performed in an experimental rat model. Serial planar scintigraphic and biodistribution analysis of infected vegetations are compared to rats with sterile vegetations. The heart was identified as an infected organ, the liver was identified as a non-infected organ and the heart/liver uptake ratio (T / NT ratio) was compared between infective endocarditis and sterile endocarditis groups.

Results: Planar scintigrams (in vivo measurements) showed more uptake in the heart of rats in the infective endocarditis group compared to the uptake in the heart of rats in the sterile endocarditis group, but this difference was not statistically significant (p>0.05). From the ex vivo measurements, the 99mTc-Vancomycin heart uptake increased significantly (p = 0.016), liver uptake was significantly decreased (p = 0.045) and the T/NT ratio was significantly higher (p = 0.014) in the infective endocarditis group compared to the sterile endocarditis group.

Conclusion: In this experimental study, 99mTc-Vancomycin scintigraphy ensured the detection of ex vivo infected tissue in a rat model of IE. In addition, the absence of significant 99mTc-Vancomycin uptake in the sterile endocarditis group indicates that this agent targeted the infected tissue instead of the sterile inflammatory tissue. Finally, this agent should also be evaluated with animal- specific imaging devices.

Keywords: Infective endocarditis, technetium-99m, vancomycin, T/Nt ratio, scintigraphy, imaging.

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