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Expecting the unexpected: right atrial mass in a transplant patient
ESC Heart Failure
  • Rayan Yousefzai, Advocate Aurora Health
  • Setu Trivedi
  • Renuka Jain, Advocate Aurora Health
  • Omar M Cheema, Advocate Aurora Health
  • John Crouch, Advocate Aurora Health
  • Vinay Thohan, Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Advocate Aurora Health
  • Bijoy K Khandheria, Aurora Cardiovascular Services
Affiliations

Aurora Cardiovascular Services, Aurora Sinai/Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Centers

Publication Date
11-15-2015
Abstract

We present a 71-year-old male, who had had a heart transplantation 24 years prior, who came to our clinic with a low-grade fever and a new II/VI holosystolic murmur. Echocardiography showed a large mass in the right atrium with attachment near the junction of the right atrium and superior vena cava. The patient was taken to the operating room for resection of the mass. Microscopic evaluation was consistent with thrombus. Differential diagnosis of cardiac masses after cardiac transplant includes tumour, thrombus, and vegetation. Final diagnosis can be challenging; multimodality imaging and biopsy or resection often are required for final diagnosis.

Document Type
Case Report
Citation Information

Yousefazi R, Trivedi S, Jain R, et al. Expecting the unexpected: right atrial mass in a transplant patient. ESC Heart Failure. 2015; 2(4):164-167.