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Giant bypass aneurysm, a cause of suspected cardiac mass

INTRODUCTION: A 66-years old man suffering from coronary artery disease appeared without symptoms for routine follow-up in our clinic. CASE DESCRIPTION: The echocardiogram revealed a tumorous mass of the right atrium and right ventricle. In the past, coronary revascularization with venous grafts of...

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Autores principales: Sohns, Jan M, Fasshauer, Martin, Staab, Wieland, Steinmetz, Michael, Lotz, Joachim, Unterberg-Buchwald, Christina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4148499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25184106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-433
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author Sohns, Jan M
Fasshauer, Martin
Staab, Wieland
Steinmetz, Michael
Lotz, Joachim
Unterberg-Buchwald, Christina
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description INTRODUCTION: A 66-years old man suffering from coronary artery disease appeared without symptoms for routine follow-up in our clinic. CASE DESCRIPTION: The echocardiogram revealed a tumorous mass of the right atrium and right ventricle. In the past, coronary revascularization with venous grafts of the right coronary artery and circumflex artery as well as internal mammaria graft to the left anterior descending artery was performed 20 years before. The general clinicians presented the case to the surgeons and it was decided to perform cardiac MRI as a preoperative diagnostic modality. DISCUSSION AND EVALUATION: Following cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a mass in the pericardium in the right atrioventricular groove with thrombotic material. Due to the MRI the patient underwent coronary angiography to confirm an aneurysm. CONCLUSIONS: The learning points from this case are that cardiac MRI is a very useful tool for further evaluation of suspected cardiac masses and should be performed for further characterization.
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spelling pubmed-41484992014-09-02 Giant bypass aneurysm, a cause of suspected cardiac mass Sohns, Jan M Fasshauer, Martin Staab, Wieland Steinmetz, Michael Lotz, Joachim Unterberg-Buchwald, Christina Springerplus Case Study INTRODUCTION: A 66-years old man suffering from coronary artery disease appeared without symptoms for routine follow-up in our clinic. CASE DESCRIPTION: The echocardiogram revealed a tumorous mass of the right atrium and right ventricle. In the past, coronary revascularization with venous grafts of the right coronary artery and circumflex artery as well as internal mammaria graft to the left anterior descending artery was performed 20 years before. The general clinicians presented the case to the surgeons and it was decided to perform cardiac MRI as a preoperative diagnostic modality. DISCUSSION AND EVALUATION: Following cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a mass in the pericardium in the right atrioventricular groove with thrombotic material. Due to the MRI the patient underwent coronary angiography to confirm an aneurysm. CONCLUSIONS: The learning points from this case are that cardiac MRI is a very useful tool for further evaluation of suspected cardiac masses and should be performed for further characterization. Springer International Publishing 2014-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4148499/ /pubmed/25184106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-433 Text en © Sohns et al.; licensee Springer. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4148499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25184106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-433
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