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Unusual Presentation Chronic Pulmonary Embolism due to Calcified Right Ventricular Mass

Cardiac calcified amorphous tumors (CATs) can arise in all four chambers of the heart. Cardiac CATs can cause diverse symptoms according to their locations, and mass or embolic effects. Pulmonary emboli arising from cardiac CATs have been reported, but the true incidence is unknown due to their rari...

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Autores principales: Hyun, Yu Kyung, Cho, Yun-Hyeong, Lee, Buhyun, Park, Hyung-Bok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Echocardiography 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3150703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21860724
http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2011.19.2.91
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author Hyun, Yu Kyung
Cho, Yun-Hyeong
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description Cardiac calcified amorphous tumors (CATs) can arise in all four chambers of the heart. Cardiac CATs can cause diverse symptoms according to their locations, and mass or embolic effects. Pulmonary emboli arising from cardiac CATs have been reported, but the true incidence is unknown due to their rarity. Herein we report a rare case with diffuse CATs in the right ventricle which caused a calcific pulmonary embolism and right-sided heart failure. Echocardiography, chest non-contrast computed tomography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging helped us diagnose the CATs. We recommend the usefulness of a multimodality imaging approach to characterize intracardiac masses and their complications accurately.
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spelling pubmed-31507032011-08-22 Unusual Presentation Chronic Pulmonary Embolism due to Calcified Right Ventricular Mass Hyun, Yu Kyung Cho, Yun-Hyeong Lee, Buhyun Park, Hyung-Bok J Cardiovasc Ultrasound Case Report Cardiac calcified amorphous tumors (CATs) can arise in all four chambers of the heart. Cardiac CATs can cause diverse symptoms according to their locations, and mass or embolic effects. Pulmonary emboli arising from cardiac CATs have been reported, but the true incidence is unknown due to their rarity. Herein we report a rare case with diffuse CATs in the right ventricle which caused a calcific pulmonary embolism and right-sided heart failure. Echocardiography, chest non-contrast computed tomography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging helped us diagnose the CATs. We recommend the usefulness of a multimodality imaging approach to characterize intracardiac masses and their complications accurately. Korean Society of Echocardiography 2011-06 2011-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3150703/ /pubmed/21860724 http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2011.19.2.91 Text en Copyright © 2011 Korean Society of Echocardiography http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Unusual Presentation Chronic Pulmonary Embolism due to Calcified Right Ventricular Mass
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title_full Unusual Presentation Chronic Pulmonary Embolism due to Calcified Right Ventricular Mass
title_fullStr Unusual Presentation Chronic Pulmonary Embolism due to Calcified Right Ventricular Mass
title_full_unstemmed Unusual Presentation Chronic Pulmonary Embolism due to Calcified Right Ventricular Mass
title_short Unusual Presentation Chronic Pulmonary Embolism due to Calcified Right Ventricular Mass
title_sort unusual presentation chronic pulmonary embolism due to calcified right ventricular mass
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3150703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21860724
http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2011.19.2.91
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