CRP and infection: In that regard, Avramovic et al have previously compared the diagnostic value of MV with SUVmax in patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs).18 In this particular setting, they found that inclusion of MV as a metric parameter improved the diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging in detecting LVAD driveline infections, while they also failed to observe a reliable correlation between CRP and leukocytes with MV or SUVmax.