SummaryThis is a case report of intracardiac foreign bodies that gained access to the heart by migration from a peripheral vein. The case report describes the diagnostic findings on cardiac imaging and summarizes different approaches to management. LEARNING POINTS Appearance of embolized cardiac missiles with reverberation and acoustic shadowing.Role of different imaging modalities in the dia...

Electrocardiograms have been recorded by unipolar leads from the great veins and cavities of the right heart during cardiac catheterization in 30 of 130 cases of congenital and rheumatic heart disease. These intracardiac electrograms have given information that has proved useful in diagnosis. Further, continuous monitoring on an oscilloscope of these tracings, rather than of records from surfac...

Daily water metabolism of 21 patients was studied for 3 days after intracardiac surgery and whole-body perfusion. The average obligatory water losses of these patients were approximatelv 500, 750, and 750 ml. per 1\I3 of body surface per day on the first, second, and third postoperative day, respectively. A simple system, which combines knowledge of the estimated postoperative water requirement...

We report a case of a 22-year-old female who presented with pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade. She was diagnosed with a right atrial mass by computed tomography and was referred to our institution for biopsy of this mass. Transcatheter biopsy was performed with intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) guidance, avoiding the need for transesophageal echocardiography or surgery to obtain the ...

Intracardiac papillary endothelial hyperplasia is seen very rare in the literature. This report describes the case of a 65-year old male patient who had intracardiac neoplasm behind the right coronary aortic cusp. The lesion was treated successfully by surgical excision. According to histopathological analysis the diagnosis was papillary endothelial hyperplasia. The patient was discharged witho...

Cardiac survey following administration of 131-1 autologous fibrinogen is a noninvasive technique for the detection of intracardiac thrombosis. Fibrinogen is isolated from plasma by a rapid salting-out method with ammonium sulfate and is iodinated with chloramine T. The purity of 131-fibrinogen, expressed as clottable radioactivity, is greater than 90%. Cardiac survey consisting of serial gamma...

background: we sought to assess right ventricular (rv) systolic and diastolic functions via tissue doppler imaging (tdi) in order to discriminate right-to-left (bidirectional) from left-to-right intracardiac shunts. methods: a tissue doppler velocity study via doppler echocardiography was performed in 20 patients with left-to-right shunt (without evidence of significant pulmonary hypertension) ...

Inferior vena cava (IVC) filters are increasingly used in patients with recurrent venous thromboembolism in whom anticoagulation is contraindicated or intolerable. Migration of fragments is a known complication of IVC filter use. We present a case of a 32-year-old man, who presented with right-sided chest pain believed to be caused by a migrated IVC fragment to the right ventricle. The filter w...

We report a case of a child with a right ventricular inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) who presented with fever, viral symptoms, and abdominal discomfort. Including this case, 49 intracardiac tumors have been previously reported in all age groups. The majority of intracardiac IMTs occur in pediatric patients, with approximately half presenting in children aged <12 months. Intracardiac IM...

Platypnoea–orthodeoxia is a rare syndrome of postural hypoxaemia accompanied by breathlessness. The predominant symptom, dyspnoea induced by upright posture, can be debilitating and diYcult to discern without thorough evaluation of the patient’s pattern of dyspnoea. The precise cause of the syndrome is unclear but patients develop right to left intracardiac shunting in the presence of normal ri...