Cardiac lipomas are rare, benign, encapsulated tumors which predominantly appear outside of the heart and less frequently inside the cardiac chambers. We describe a case of a right ventricular cardiac lipoma in a 72-year-old female patient who presented with palpitations. Surgical considerations, diagnostic modalities, and up-to-date literature are also presented and discussed.
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J Cardiothorac Surg
December 2024
Department of Ultrasound, Yanan Hospital of Kunming City, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.
We report the noninvasive imaging diagnosis of a massive right atrial lipoma in a young male patient. Echocardiography and myocardial contrast echocardiography were used to assess echo intensity, tumor size, anatomic boundary, hemodynamics, and contrast agent perfusion. Dual-source CT revealed that the CT value of the tumor was fat density.
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December 2024
State Key Laboratory for Innovation and Transformation of Luobing Theory, Jinan, China.
Diagnostics (Basel)
November 2024
Centre for Diagnostic Imaging, 4th Military Hospital, 50-981 Wroclaw, Poland.
Cardiac tumors present substantial diagnostic challenges due to their diverse manifestations and similarity to other cardiac pathologies. Cardiac lipomas are rare tumors that originate from adipose cells and can develop in any location within the heart. Cardiac lipomas account for 2.
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October 2024
Department of Anatomical Sciences, William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Hattiesburg, USA.
J Cardiothorac Surg
October 2024
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of the First Affiliated Hospital, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China.
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