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Eur Heart J
January 2025
Ultrasound Imaging Center, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100037, China.
Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging
September 2022
Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Freiburgstrasse 18, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland.
Aims: Incidental detection of left atrial appendage (LAA) filling defects is a common finding on multi-detector computed tomography in aortic stenosis patients under evaluation for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). We aimed to investigate the incidence of LAA filling defects before TAVI and its impact on clinical outcomes.
Methods And Results: In a prospective registry, LAA filling defects were retrospectively evaluated and categorized into one of four sub-types: thrombus-like, heterogeneous, horizontal, and Hounsfield Unit (HU)-run-off.
J Int Med Res
March 2020
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
This report presents a very rare case of fibrous tumour in the pulmonary artery. A 32-year-old male patient presented at the First Hospital of Jilin University with the chief complaint of chest pain accompanied by cough and haemoptysis. Laboratory test results showed a D-dimer level of 60 ng/ml, and protein S activity of 51.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown)
August 2012
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Department, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Myxomas are by far the most common tumours of the heart. A 75-year-old man with no notable medical history presented with a 2-month progressive weight loss and dyspnoea on exertion. Physical examination revealed an opening snap and a diastolic decrescendo murmur at the apex.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKorean J Intern Med
March 2007
Department of Internal Medicine, Gachon Medicine School and Science, Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea.
Primary cardiac tumors are extremely rare and can originate within the heart or be the result of tumor spread from other sites. We report a female patient with a pulmonary vein tumor extending into the left atrium that had a suspicious primary malignant origin with a sacral metastatic carcinoma. The patient was admitted complaining of pain in her buttock area as a result of a sacral tumor.
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