April 29, 2008Echocardiography
Assessment of the Vascularity of a Left Atrial Mass Using Myocardial Perfusion Contrast Echocardiography
Population
A patient with an incidentally found cardiac mass on transthoracic echocardiography, and another patient…
Design
Case_report
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May aid differentiation of vascular cardiac masses from thrombi in select cases; leaves open need for prospective validation.
Structured PICO
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Population
A patient with an incidentally found cardiac mass on transthoracic echocardiography, and another patient with a left atrial thrombus
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Intervention
Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE)
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Outcome
Evaluation of the vascularity of the cardiac masssurrogate
Myocardial contrast echocardiography can be used to assess the vascularity of cardiac masses, helping differentiate them from avascular structures like thrombi.
Cite This Study
Abdelmoneim et al. (2008) studied this question.