Echocardiographic diagnosis of pulmonary vein varix.
Pulmonary vein varix is a rare abnormality, often resembling a pulmonary or mediastinal mass on chest radiographs, and pulmonary angiography has been the mainstay of diagnosis. An unusual case of pulmonary vein varix was clearly defined by echocardiography performed in a 47-year-old woman with chest discomfort who had been found to have an abnormal structure behind the cardiac silhouette on a chest radiograph. The diagnosis of left lower pulmonary vein varix was noninvasively confirmed by transthoracic echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography.
Shiraishi
Jun
J
Second Department of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. sjun@msj.biglobe.ne.jp
Tatsumi
Tetsuya
T
Kimata
Masaki
M
Kambayashi
Daisuke
D
Mano
Akiko
A
Yamanaka
Satoshi
S
Kobara
Miyuki
M
Azuma
Akihiro
A
Nakagawa
Masao
M
D000792:Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*