Why the study?
Intracardiac lipoma arising from the papillary muscle is very rare and rarely reported in the literature.
Demonstrates the diagnostic capability of multimodality imaging (TTE and CMR) for identifying rare intracardiac lipomas located on the papillary muscle.
May support multimodality imaging for rare papillary muscle lipomas; leaves open management questions.
Transthoracic echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging revealed a well-defined globular mass attached to the anterolateral papillary muscle. The mass was hyperintense on T1 and T2 weighted images with suppression of signal on fat saturated and short tau inversion recovery (STIR) images. This imaging established the diagnosis of cardiac lipoma attached to the anterolateral papillary muscle, Papillary muscle is a very rare location of lipoma, which is rarely reported in the literature.
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Verma et al. (2024) studied this question.