Summary Nuclear medicine has played an increasing role in the evaluation of patients with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Scintigraphy with marked leukocytes (ML) is a method widely used in clinical practice to detect sites of infection, being especially indicated in patients with suspected infective endocarditis (IE) in prosthetic valves or implantable cardiac devices (ICD) when other conventional imaging methods studies are not conclusive. The technique involves labeling the patient’s own leukocytes with a radiotracer, such as […]