introduction left atrial thrombi are present in one third of patients with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis and atrial fibrillation. a left atrial mass can be diagnosed as a thrombus by transthoracic echocardiography in the presence of the predisposing factors for a thrombus such as mitral stenosis and atrial fibrillation. the sensitivity of transthoracic echocardiography for detecting left atr...

BACKGROUND The presence of primary intracardiac tumors are scarce, and most of them are myxomas. We reported, in this paper, a case with huge mass in the right side of the heart. CASE REPORT A 45-year-old man, with a complaint of bilateral lower limbs edema and exertional dyspnea, was admitted to intensive cardiac care unit. Cardiac auscultation revealed soft grade systolic murmur without any...

Coronary fistulae and ventricular septal perforation are very rare clinically, and even less caused by cardiac leiomyosarcoma. A case is reported that a 67-year-old female had cardiac leiomyosarcoma with progressive heart failure and coronary fistulae and ventricular septal perforation. This case was special since all ante-mortem examinations and cardiac surgery failed to detect the presence of...

Increased left-ventricular mass is an important cardiovascular risk factor for morbidity and mortality. Apart from obvious differences in cardiac size, the changes in left-ventricular mass in response to age and hypertrophic stimuli are very different in men and women. Whereas left-ventricular mass increases with age in apparently healthy women, it remains constant in men. Under increased cardi...

From the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiobogy, University of Oreg rn Medical School, Portland. Reprint req ests Dr. Dodek, 3181 Sam Jackson Park Road, Porll rnd, Oregon 97201 nontender abdominal mass was palpable extending from the xiphoid to the umbilicus. Normal heart sounds and a normally located apical impulse were noted. The electrocardiogram revealed evidence of lateral wall isc...