Myocardial contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis of a left ventricular hemangioma
Myocardial perfusion contrast echocardiography is an imaging tool for the assessment of myocardial microcirculation. It can also be used for the evaluation of the relative perfusion of a cardiac mass. Cardiac hemangiomas are rare tumors, accounting for only 2.8% of all benign primary cardiac tumors....
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| description | Myocardial perfusion contrast echocardiography is an imaging tool for the assessment of myocardial microcirculation. It can also be used for the evaluation of the relative perfusion of a cardiac mass. Cardiac hemangiomas are rare tumors, accounting for only 2.8% of all benign primary cardiac tumors. We report a case of a 17-year-old man with a left ventricular hemangioma detected with transthoracic echocardiography. Myocardial perfusion contrast echocardiography was used to evaluate the vascularity of the cardiac mass. Using this technique malignant and hypervascular (<em>e.g</em>., hemangioma) tumors display persistence of contrast enhancement compared to the surrounding myocardium. The mass was successfully removed and the final report from pathology showed that the left ventricular mass was a hemangioma, a hypervascular tumor |
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| spelling | doaj.art-df806f36bc414ca8aa07589f2a5905d42023-12-03T04:59:06ZengPAGEPress PublicationsItalian Journal of Medicine1877-93441877-93522016-06-0110215115310.4081/itjm.2016.618560Myocardial contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis of a left ventricular hemangiomaKyriacos Papadopoulos0Constantinos Makrides1Medical Check-Up Center, NicosiaGeneral Practitioner, LimassolMyocardial perfusion contrast echocardiography is an imaging tool for the assessment of myocardial microcirculation. It can also be used for the evaluation of the relative perfusion of a cardiac mass. Cardiac hemangiomas are rare tumors, accounting for only 2.8% of all benign primary cardiac tumors. We report a case of a 17-year-old man with a left ventricular hemangioma detected with transthoracic echocardiography. Myocardial perfusion contrast echocardiography was used to evaluate the vascularity of the cardiac mass. Using this technique malignant and hypervascular (<em>e.g</em>., hemangioma) tumors display persistence of contrast enhancement compared to the surrounding myocardium. The mass was successfully removed and the final report from pathology showed that the left ventricular mass was a hemangioma, a hypervascular tumorhttp://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/618Contrast echocardiographymyocardial microcirculationhemangiomaheart neoplasmsleft ventriclehypervascular tumor. |
| spellingShingle | Kyriacos Papadopoulos Constantinos Makrides Myocardial contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis of a left ventricular hemangioma Italian Journal of Medicine Contrast echocardiography myocardial microcirculation hemangioma heart neoplasms left ventricle hypervascular tumor. |
| title | Myocardial contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis of a left ventricular hemangioma |
| title_full | Myocardial contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis of a left ventricular hemangioma |
| title_fullStr | Myocardial contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis of a left ventricular hemangioma |
| title_full_unstemmed | Myocardial contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis of a left ventricular hemangioma |
| title_short | Myocardial contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis of a left ventricular hemangioma |
| title_sort | myocardial contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis of a left ventricular hemangioma |
| topic | Contrast echocardiography myocardial microcirculation hemangioma heart neoplasms left ventricle hypervascular tumor. |
| url | http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/618 |
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