Fig. 1

Diagnostic imaging of Lomentospora prolificans endocarditis. a FDG-PET axial image showing abnormal linear uptake in the aortic root and the ascending aorta and b Transoesophageal echocardiogram (still shot) axial view demonstrating a large pedunculated mass within the ascending aorta arising from the commissure of the right and non-coronary cusp of the aortic valve with a calcified base; and cerebral emboli c MRI brain axial view, with some motion artefact, showing post-gadolinium enhancement of the right parasagittal frontal lobe consistent with an embolic lesion