Big thrombus "sitting" in an atrial septal aneurysm.
Julián Vega AdauyLuigi GabrielliSamuel CórdovaRodrigo SaavedraPaul McNabPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2017)
A 79 year-old-man presented three episodes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding and weight loss. Endoscopy revealed bleeding and extrinsic compression at the pyloric region. Computed tomography scan showed a pancreatic tumor, peritoneal carcinomatosis, vascular infiltration, and incidentally found a partially calcified hypodense lesion of 35 mm in the left atrium, suggesting a myxoma or a thrombus. Echocardiography revealed moderate left atrium enlargement, dilated left atrial appendage with spontaneous echo contrast, moderate dilatation and dysfunction of the left ventricle, ejection fraction was 39%, and an atrial septal aneurysm in which a piriform, mass of 35×33×25 mm, was "sitting," suggesting an organized thrombus.
Keyphrases
- left atrial appendage
- atrial fibrillation
- computed tomography
- ejection fraction
- catheter ablation
- coronary artery
- pulmonary artery
- left atrial
- weight loss
- contrast enhanced
- magnetic resonance
- aortic stenosis
- pulmonary hypertension
- positron emission tomography
- high intensity
- single cell
- magnetic resonance imaging
- heart failure
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- bariatric surgery
- dual energy
- diffusion weighted
- vena cava
- mitral valve
- adipose tissue
- skeletal muscle
- insulin resistance
- diffusion weighted imaging
- pet ct
- metabolic syndrome
- body mass index
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- congenital heart disease
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement