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Invasive cardiac lipoma diagnosis based on echocardiography: Case report and literature review
Author(s) -
Bai Ruocen,
Zhang Yanfen,
Wang Hefang,
Yang Jun,
Sun Dandan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.22893
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac tumors , lipoma , radiology , heart neoplasms , invagination , cardiology , surgery
Echocardiography is first‐line examination of cardiac tumors. We report the case of a 25‐year‐old woman with a right atrial transmural invasive lipoma, and we review 58 published reports of primary cardiac invasive lipomas detected by echocardiography. We summarize the ultrasonographic characteristics and main sites of development, and examine the “invagination hypothesis”. Echocardiography appears valuable for early detection, intraoperative monitoring, and postoperative follow‐up of invasive cardiac lipomas.