Cardiovascular magnetic resonance provides optimal non-invasive localization and tissue characterization to distinguish pseudomasses from masses and benign from malignant cardiac lesions.
Does cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) improve the diagnosis and characterization of cardiac masses?
CMR plays a key role in the non-invasive assessment, tissue characterization, and differential diagnosis of cardiac masses, significantly impacting patient management.
infective endocarditis or thrombi). The modern multi-modality imaging techniques has a key role not only for the initial assessment and differential diagnosis but also for management and surveillance of the cardiac masses. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) allows an optimal non-invasive localization of the lesion, providing multiplanar information on its relation to surrounding structures. Moreover, with the additional feature of tissue characterization, CMR can be highly effective to distinguish pseudomasses from masses, as well as benign from malignant lesions, with further differential diagnosis of the latter. Although histopathological assessment is important to make a definitive diagnosis, CMR plays a key role in the diagnosis of suspected cardiac masses with a great impact on patient management. This literature review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of cardiac masses, from clinical and imaging protocol to pathological findings.
Gatti et al. (Thu,) conducted a review in Cardiac tumors and masses. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) was evaluated. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance provides optimal non-invasive localization and tissue characterization to distinguish pseudomasses from masses and benign from malignant cardiac lesions.