Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Any patient ≥ 18 years treated at the university hospital center of Bordeaux for suspicion of infectious endocarditis on a native valve with a "definite" or "possible" diagnosis according to the ESC 2015 modified diagnostic criteria, agreeing to participate, * Affiliated person or beneficiary of a social security scheme, * Free, informed and written consent (no later than the day of inclusion and before any exam required by the research). Exclusion Criteria: * Patient with a vital failure (haemodynamic, respiratory or neurological instability), requiring treatment in the intensive care unit and / or urgent surgery incompatible with performing PET-CT, * Pregnant or nursing woman, * Patient who has already been treated for infective endocarditis within six months of enrollment, * Patient who had cardiac surgery in the two months preceding inclusion, * Patient who has previously been hypersensitive to fluorodeoxyglucose and / or excipients of the radiotracer, * Patient unable to sign consent, * Patient under legal protection, * Women of childbearing age who do not benefit from effective contraception (HAS criteria), * Patient in a period of relative exclusion from another research protocol.