Agitated saline contrast echocardiography reveals cor triatriatum dexter.

We present the case of a 54-year-old man who had an unusual finding in contrast echocardiography with agitated saline. Partition of the right atrium in two compartments, an opacified and a non-opacified one, was noted. Further assessment with a transesophageal echocardiogram revealed the presence of a membrane in the right atrium, with the final diagnosis being cor triatriatum dexter.

Agitated saline contrast echocardiography reveals a systemic-to-pulmonary venous shunt.

Contrast echocardiography with agitated saline is used to assess mainly the existence of interatrial communication. We report a case of a 26-year-old woman, with a "port-a-cath" central venous line, who had an unusual finding in agitated saline contrast echocardiography. Multimodality imaging revealed occlusion of superior vena cava and a systemic-to-pulmonary venous shunt.

The additive value of three-dimensional derived left atrial volume and carotid imaging in dobutamine stress echocardiography.

Aims: to evaluate whether the three-dimensional (3D) left atrial volume index (LAVI) and/or the presence of carotid plaques (CP) can predict the result of dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE), thereby aiding interpretation.

Methods And Results: we studied 130 patients (52 male, mean age 63 ± 11 years) with normal resting wall motion (WM) undergoing DSE. All patients had the end-systolic 2D and 3D LAVI measured, as well as bilateral carotid scanning.