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Assessment of the Vascularity of a Left Atrial Mass Using Myocardial Perfusion Contrast Echocardiography
Author(s) -
Abdelmoneim Sahar S.,
Bernier Mathieu,
Dhoble Abhijeet,
Mankad Sunil V.,
Mulvagh Sharon L.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00654.x
Subject(s) - medicine , vascularity , perfusion , cardiology , thrombus , radiology
Emerging applications of myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) include the evaluation of myocardial perfusion, the improvement of the definition of intracavitary structures, and evaluation of the relative perfusion of a cardiac mass. We present a case of a patient that was found incidentally to have a cardiac mass on transthoracic echocardiography. MCE was used to evaluate the vascularity of the mass. This case is compared with another patient with a left atrial thrombus, which represents an “avascular” cardiac mass by MCE.