Cardiac mass in the setting of acute myocardial infarction.
When a middle-aged woman with a complex cardiac history presented with a cardiac mass in the setting of an evolving myocardial infarction, it created a diagnostic dilemma. This case report describes the diagnostic evaluation of such a patient and discusses the rare finding of an intramyocardial hematoma.
Cesario
David A
DA
Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Yun
Denise
D
Krivokapich
Janine
J
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006406:Hematoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed