Primary Cardiac Lymphoma Diagnosed With Transesophageal Echocardiography–Guided Endomyocardial Biopsy

Cardiac Amyloidosis Diagnosed by Endomyocardial Biopsy

Intracavitary cardiac melanoma diagnosed by endomyocardial left ventricular biopsy.

A patient was evaluated for a persistent pericardial effusion and on two-dimensional echocardiography was found to have an intracavitary left ventricular mass. Twenty-two years earlier, a melanoma of the ethmoid sinus had been excised. An electrocardiogram revealed impressive T-wave abnormalities and pathologic Q waves, initially suggestive of "myocardial infarction." However, the coronary arte...

[Primary cardiac lymphoma: diagnosis by transjugular biopsy].

Primary cardiac lymphoma, defined as a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma involving only the heart and pericardium, is an extremely rare malignancy. It should be suspected in patients with a heart mass and heart failure, unexplained refractory pericardial effusion or rhythm disturbances. Transvenous intracardiac tumor biopsy under fluoroscopic or transesophageal echocardiographic guidance, is a minimally i...

Intracardiac sarcoma diagnosed by left ventricular endomyocardial biopsy.

[Endomyocardial biopsy].