Season 5 Case 29

chest Mar 28, 2017

Case 29

History: chest pain


Answer:

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So yes, there is something in the left atrium. And it’s flopping around given all that surrounding intermediate density (volume averaging with a moving mass - it is tough to call regurgitation on a single image but cine would really help or MRI would be even better).

Answer: left atrial myxoma

reference: https://radiopaedia.org/articles/cardiac-myxoma

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