STEMI or not STEMI? A multimodality imaging approach to a challenging intracardiac mass with a tricky presentation.
Laura PiscitelliAntonio Gianluca RoblesRoberto CostantinoValentina ForteSilvio RomanoLuigi SciarraFrancesco BartolomucciDomenico Riccardo Rosario ChieppaPublished in: Future cardiology (2024)
Cardiac tumors, due to the various clinical scenarios and their histological subtypes, are still challenging for clinicians. They are differentiated into primary and secondary. The latest are more common and are usually lung and breast cancers, melanomas, and lymphoma metastasis. We present a case of a 73-year-old woman, with a history of breast cancer 10 years earlier, admitted to Cath lab for an elevation of the ST-segment of the electrocardiogram, myocardial infarction. Echocardiogram showed a curious abnormality in the myocardial wall. Thanks to a multimodality imaging strategy, including contrast-enhanced echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance, characterization of the underlying pathology was clear and, thus, the appropriate management and therapy.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- left ventricular
- magnetic resonance
- computed tomography
- high resolution
- magnetic resonance imaging
- diffusion weighted
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- heart failure
- diffusion weighted imaging
- climate change
- diffuse large b cell lymphoma
- palliative care
- stem cells
- coronary artery disease
- mesenchymal stem cells
- dual energy
- fluorescence imaging
- bone marrow
- young adults
- cell therapy
- smoking cessation