Cardiac masses are rare entities that can be broadly categorized as either neoplastic or non-neoplastic. Neoplastic masses include benign and malignant tumors. In the heart, metastatic tumors are more common than primary malignant tumors. Whether incidentally found or diagnosed as a result of patients' symptoms, cardiac masses can be identified and further characterized by a range of cardiovasc...

A 67 years old woman was referred to nuclear medicine center for myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for assessment of ischemic heart dieses (IHD).She had a history of atypical chest pain and dyspnea since about 10 days before admission. The MPI SPECT/CT was performed by stress/redistribution Tl-201 protocol. MPI was interpreted as relatively good coronary flow with no appreciable stress induced...

Introduction: Shone syndrome is a rare congenital cardiac abnormality; however, many of the cases remain undiagnosed until early and mid-adulthood. Different Imaging modalities are used to assess the related structural abnormalities. Case presentation: In this case study, we report a 32 yo woman who was planning for her first pregnancy. In consideration to her childhood heart problems, besides...

Introduction Left ventricular (LV) twist is believed to store potential energy and plays an important role in generating diastolic suction. Recent advances in echocardiography techniques have allowed quantification of LV twist. The aim of the present study was to compare LV twist and torsion in healthy human subjects determined by velocity vector imaging (VVI) and tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) a...

introduction the pericardial agenesis is a rare congenital anomaly. classified as partial or total being asymptomatic in most cases, but some patients are at risk for serious complications and death, and these have indication for surgical treatment. case presentation this paper describes the case of a 21 year old patient, with atypical precordial pain, diagnosed with agenesis of the left perica...

A one-month-old male terrier dog was referred in shock status with a history of anorexia, tachypnea, abdominal distention and progressive weight loss. Auscultation of right side of the lungs found enhanced respiratory noises. The thorough auscultation of the opposite side of the chest revealed the presence of typical intestinal sounds. Cardiac auscultation revealed muffled heart sounds and a di...

The history of cardiac imaging began with creation of a radiographic shadow image (x-ray) of the thorax, shortly after the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen, in 1895, when Danzer described the cardiothoracic ratio in 1919 (2). By comparison, cardiac MRI, which became clinically feasible only in the late 1980s, is a young imaging modality (3). The course of development of each cardiac imag...