Giant Right Atrial Wall Vegetation Mimicking Cardiac Tumor

Pey Jen Yu; Marshall Fordyce; Monvadi B. Srichai; Andrew Zinn; Mariela Losada; Samyra El-ftesi; Timothy J. Vittorio; Juan B. Grau

doi:10.1016/j.echo.2007.02.030

Giant Right Atrial Wall Vegetation Mimicking Cardiac Tumor

Pey Jen Yu, Marshall Fordyce, Monvadi B. Srichai, Andrew Zinn, Mariela Losada, Samyra El-ftesi, Timothy J. Vittorio, Juan B. Grau

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Abstract

We report the use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of a large right atrial vegetation. A 44-year-old woman admitted with septic shock was found to have a giant mass attached to the lateral free wall of the right atrium that was consistent with tumor on transesophageal echocardiography. Interestingly, diagnosis of vegetation was later made by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and confirmed by surgical pathology. The case highlights not only an atypical presentation for intracardiac vegetation, but also the use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging as an adjunct to transesophageal echocardiography in the evaluation of cardiac masses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1315.e9-1315.e11
Journal	Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume	20
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2007.02.030
State	Published - Nov 2007
Externally published	Yes

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