Multimodality imaging including echocardiography, MRI, and coronary arteriography can effectively diagnose rare cardiac hemangiomas in older patients.
Multimodality imaging diagnosed rare right atrial hemangioma in this case; leaves open generalizability and optimal strategy for cardiac masses.
Hemangiomas are rare benign neoplasms of the heart generally diagnosed in young or middle-aged patients. We report a case of asymptomatic 71-year-old-woman in whom the tumor was detected after an echocardiogram. Echocardiography directs the diagnosis toward a cardiac mass but some aspects can suggest the hemangioma; MRI and coronary arteriography establishes the diagnosis showing the typical tumor blush.
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