title: Intracardiac echocardiography-guided cardiac tumor biopsy.
abstract: A 63-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with the chief complaint of new onset chest discomfort and pretibial pitting edema. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a large invasive tumor on the heart protruding into the right atrium and right ventricle, which obstructed the outflow tract. She underwent transvenous 9Fr, 9-MHz ultra intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) (EP Technologies, Boston Scientific Corporation, San Jose, CA, USA) guided biopsy, and a diagnosis of malignant lymphoma was established from the specimen obtained. ICE-guided cardiac tumor biopsy may be one of the most useful strategies for diagnosis of cardiac tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Taiki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Higo
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takemoto
authors.forename: Kiyohiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: Shujiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Ken-ichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Eshima
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tada
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sunagawa
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged