RESEARCH ARTICLE
A Right Atrial Hemangioma Mimicking Thrombus In A Patient With Atrial Arrhythmias
Patel Alpesh A. , Chukwu Ebere O. , Swerdloff Daniel S. , Bhatt Vivek, Schecter Stuart O, Anagnostopoulos Anastasia, Gopal Aasha S. *
Adult Noninvasive Laboratory, St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, NY, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2007Volume: 1
First Page: 34
Last Page: 35
Publisher ID: TOCMJ-1-34
DOI: 10.2174/1874192400701010034
Article History:
Received Date: 20/10/2007Revision Received Date: 28/11/2007
Acceptance Date: 30/11/2007
Electronic publication date: 31/12/2007
Collection year: 2007
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/), which permits unrestrictive use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Cardiac hemangiomas are rare tumors, accounting for only 2.8% of all benign primary cardiac tumors and occur at any age. Clinical presentations vary depending on the tumor location (myocardial, endocardial or pericardial). In many cases, this may be an incidental finding. We report the case of a patient with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation who had a right atrial hemangioma detected with transesophageal echocardiography prior to having percutaneous pulmonary vein isolation performed
