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…
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…
Echocardiography in benign cardiac tumors (diagnosis, approach, and follow-up)
Key points • The most common benign cardiac tumors are myxomas. Arising from a stalk attached to the fossa ovalis membrane, myxomas are generally found in the left atrium. •…
Echocardiography in malignant cardiac tumors (diagnosis, approach, and follow-up)
Key points • Most malignant cardiac tumors are metastatic, most commonly from lung and breast carcinomas, melanomas, soft tissue sarcomas, and renal carcinomas. • Malignant primary cardiac tumors are rare…
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…
Infectious lesions mimicking cardiac masses
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…
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…
Imaging pitfalls, artifacts, and normal variants mimicking cardiac masses
Key points • Anatomic variants occurring in normal cardiac developments often simulate pathologic entities. • Anatomic variants are particularly common in the right atrium. • Due to the physical properties…
Electrocardiography and cardio-oncology
Key points • Baseline ECG in any cardiac or extracardiac tumors is mandatory since therapeutic side effects of chemotherapy on heart are proven. • Comprehensive understanding of the cardiac effect…
Angiographic clues for a cardiac mass
Key points • Most heart tumors are benign. Atrial myxomas make for 30%–50% of all primary cardiac tumors. (See Boxes 5.2 and 5.3 .) Box 5.2 Coronary artery disease. Coronary…
