An electrophysiological and anatomical space-occupying lesion: Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum in a patient presenting with atrial tachycardia
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[Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum].
Lipomatous hypertrophy of the heart is a benign rare tumor characterized by fatty tissue deposits in the interatrial septum. Its diagnosis during life is mostly seen incidental. We report the case of a 74-year-old female patient, in which a cardiac mass protruding in the right atrium was diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography. Transoesophageal echocardiography examination detected an echog...
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Subcostal 4-chamber view of transthoracic echocardiography revealed abnormal thickening of atrial septum (arrow) in a 43-year-old Japanese woman with frequent atrial premature beats (A). MRI was obtained by the ECG-gated spin-echo technique. T1-weighted image of the heart demonstrated large fatty deposits (arrow) in the atrial septum, which have been referred to as lipomatous hypertrophy of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: HeartRhythm Case Reports
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2214-0271
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrcr.2021.05.003