Left ventricular mass – A facade for left ventricular calcification

echocardiographic assessment of inappropriate left ventricular mass and left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with diastolic dysfunction

background: early diagnosis of left ventricular mass (lvm) inappropriateness and left ventricular hypertrophy   (lvh) can result in preventing diastolic left ventricular dysfunction and its related morbidity and mortality. this study was performed to determine if diastolic dysfunction   is associated with lvh and inappropriate lvm. methods: one hundred   and twenty five uncomplicated hypertensi...

Mitral annular calcification: left atrial size and left ventricular dysfunction

Massive and rapid left ventricular calcification

A 21-year-old woman was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma (stage IV-B) in 2001 and underwent chemotherapy and then three stem cell transplantations [auto-peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) in 2002, allo-bone marrow transplantation from her mother in 2002 and alloPBSCT from her sister in 2003]. From 2004, her serum creatinine began to rise and, in March 2005, she reached end-stag...

Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm perceived as a left lung mass

Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is a rare complication of aneurysmectomy. We present a case of a surgically treated left ventricular pseudoaneurysm, which was diagnosed three years after coronary artery bypass grafting and left ventricular aneurysmectomy. The presenting symptoms, diagnostic evaluation, and surgical repair are described.

High myocardial 18F-FDG uptake after chemotherapy in the presence of left ventricular dysfunction as well as 3-month later with no left ventricular dysfunction

Diffusely increased glucose metabolic activity in the right and left ventricles using 2-deoxy-2-(F-18) fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDGPET/CT) and global left ventricular hypokinesia at echocardiography can be evident in acute myocarditis. But, there has been no case report that the ventricular 18F-FDGuptake remains unchanged even ...