F18-MHF: Implants-Associated Infection Detection

Inclusion Criteria

• •Patients must be 18 years of age or older, able to provide written informed consent, and ability to lie still for PET scanning.
• •Suspected knee prosthetic infection at least 2 months after original prosthesis placement and who are scheduled to undergo surgery debridement/removal based on the clinical assessment of the referring surgeon.
• •OR Inpatients or outpatients with standard clinical evidence of infected left-ventricular assist devices (LVADs), cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) such as but not restricted to pacemakers and defibrillators, and vascular grafts. Patients may be culture positive or negative, have visual evidence of infection such as frank pus, or classic radiographic evidence of infection on cross sectional imaging and/or FDG PET.
• •Willingness to abstain from sexual activity involving the exchange of body fluid for 24 hours after the administration of \[F-18\]MHF
• •Elevated CRP and ESR for orthopedic devices.
• •Patients must be 18 years of age or older, able to provide written informed consent and ability to lie still for PET scanning
• •Knee prosthesis in situ without complications for 6 months or longer