CMR in benign cardiac tumors (diagnosis, approach, and follow-up)
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…
Anesthetic considerations in cardiac mass
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….
Surgical features of benign cardiac masses
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…
PET in benign cardiac tumors: Diagnosis, approach, and follow up
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…
Surgical features of malignant cardiac tumors
Key points • Differentiating primary benign vs malignant cardiac tumors can be done using multimodal imaging as well as tissue biopsy. • Clinical features including rapid growth, involvement of multiple…
Cardiac thrombi and imaging modalities (diagnosis, approach, and follow-up)
Key points • Intracardiac thrombi constitute an important clinical condition because of their potential complications. • Detection of ventricular thrombi is generally performed by transthoracic echocardiography, while atrial thrombi are…
CT in benign cardiac tumors (diagnosis, approach, and follow-up)
Key points • CT has emerged as an important imaging modality in the evaluation of cardiac and paracardiac neoplasms. CT has several advantages including wide availability, rapid acquisition time, excellent…
Malignant masses: Macroscopic and microscopic evaluation
Key points • Cardiac neoplasms are rare and most of the malignancies in this organ are metastatic in origin. Fig. 18.2 Angiosarcoma (gross). Right atrial angiosarcoma in a 49/Y woman:…
Contrast echocardiography in cardiac masses
Key points • Newer echocardiographic techniques may provide incremental information to help characterize cardiac masses. • Myocardial contrast echocardiography allows an improved definition of intracavity structures and an assessment of…
Differential diagnosis of cardiac masses by operation view
Key points • Most patients with cardiac masses are asymptomatic; however, they may present with symptomatology and clinical signs suggestive of more common and rapidly debilitating syndromes such as angina,…
