New PET tracer aims to detect hidden implant infections

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria for symptomatic patient cohort * 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. Exclusion Criteria for symptomatic patient cohort: • Significant comorbidity such as grade ≥3 renal toxicity, septic shock, other condition in which the opinion of the PI, PET scanning would constitute significant risk Inclusion Criteria for asymptomatic cohort: * 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 Exclusion Criteria for asymptomatic cohort: * Clinical or laboratory suspicion of knee prosthesis infection * Recent (within 3 months) or current treatment for infected knee prosthesis * Significant comorbidity such as grade ≥3 renal toxicity, septic shock, or other condition in which the opinion of the PI, PET scanning would constitute significant risk.