title: Assessment of a right ventricular metastasis using contrast echocardiography perfusion imaging.
abstract: Cardiac metastases of thyroid carcinomas are rarely diagnosed ante mortem and infrequently reported in the literature. A 68-year-old man with known papillary thyroid carcinoma presented to the hospital with progressive shortness of breath. A transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a right ventricular mass. Contrast echocardiography perfusion imaging was used to evaluate the vascularity of the mass.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, University of Montreal, 5400 Boul. Gouin W, Montreal, Quebec H4J 1C5, Canada.
authors.forename: Sherif E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Moustafa
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sauvé
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Amyot
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003287:Contrast Media; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005466:Fluorocarbons; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D005466:Fluorocarbons; C042852:perflutren