Key points • Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard noninvasive imaging modality to assess tissue characteristics in vivo which gives it a unique advantage in discriminating benign cardiac…
Key points • Extracardiac cardiac masses are important to the cardiologist because they can sometimes compress the heart or the great vessels, which enter or emerge from the heart, and,…
Key points • Malignant tumors are extremely rare. • 25% of primary cardiac tumors are malignant. • Most malignant cardiac tumors are metastatic (from breast, lung, melanoma, soft tissue sarcoma,…
Key points • Vegetations are oscillating or nonoscillating intracardiac masses on the valves or other endocardial structures or intracardiac implanted materials. • Vegetations are typically located on the upstream side…
Key points • Today minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) is a good alternative for standard midsternotomy for many cardiac surgeries. • Indications, technical issues, and the number of centers for…
Key points • Cardiac tumors consist of a diverse group of conditions with various characteristics, most of them being benign lesions • Association of benign cardiac lesions with genetic syndromes…
Key points • Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is a robust technique in the evaluation of cardiac mass. • The advantage of CMR includes the large field of view, superior tissue…
Key points • Hemodynamic instability or even collapse, hypotension, and arrhythmias caused by a large right/left atrial or atrioventricular valve mass, limiting venous return and obstruction/restriction of intracardiac blood flow….
Key points • Benign cardiac masses are exceedingly rare, and the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms behind their emergence are poorly understood • Most patients are asymptomatic unless the mass exerts an…
Key points • Positron emission tomography (PET) measures two annihilation photons of an emitted positron from a radionuclide-labeled tracer with a specific biochemical distribution, resulting in molecular imaging of biological…
