Background Primary or metastatic cardiac tumors are rare. Echocardiography is limited in differentiating different cardiac masses in particular tumors from thrombi. MRI offers incremental value; optimal tissue differentiation especially with Gadolinium contrast enhancement. The ability to differntiate a cardiac tumor from a cardiac thrombus is crucial for patient management. The purposse of thi...

Their cardiac surgical expertise is reflected in extensive sections on native and prosthetic valve assessment as well as transcatheter aortic valve replacement, inter-atrial septum occlusion, ventricular assist devices and cardiac masses. The book is well suited for someone learning or performing TOE in a tertiary centre or referring patients to such a centre for cardiac valvular or device inte...

leiomyosarcoma is one of the soft tissue sarcomas that could originate from different parts of body and are mostly presented as retropritoneal mass. leiomyosarcomas of vascular origin are particularly rare tumors occurring mainly in inferior vena cava (ivc). here, we report the case of a 35-year-old male patient who presented with ascites and jaundice. further evaluation revealed large hepatic ...

BACKGROUND Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is emerging as an important diagnostic modality in the management of cardiovascular-related dysfunction in oncological diseases. Advances in imaging techniques have enhanced the detection and evaluation of cardiac masses; meanwhile, innovative applications have created a growing role for cardiac MRI for the management of cardiotoxicity caused ...

Background In bright blood imaging, partial volume averaging of small moving intracavitary structures and surrounding bright blood often degrades the depiction of such morphology. Therefore, structures including papillary muscles, trabeculations, and intracardiac masses are better visualized with dark blood (DB) techniques. DB imaging also provides better image contrast for low signal structure...

A five year old girl presented with a four month history of recurrent heart failure, which subsequently proved to be caused by endomyocardial fibrosis. There was no evidence of valvar disease. Echocardiography showed several echogenic masses with echolucent centres within the cardiac cavity. Histological examination showed that these masses were partly organised thrombus.