title: Lipomatous hypertrophy of interatrial septum.
abstract: Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum is being increasingly recognised and should be considered as part of the differential diagnosis for any cardiac tumour. We present the case of a 65-year-old male patient who presented at the emergency department complaining of palpitations. Transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography detected a lipomatous membrane separating the dilated left atrium from the right atrium. Diagnosis was confirmed by MRI. In such cases, the opinion of a specialist echocardiologist would help to avoid a misdiagnosis and unnecessary intervention.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Polyclinic General Hospital of Athens, Greece. konlampropoulos@yahoo.gr
authors.forename: Konstantinos M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Lampropoulos
authors.forename: Dimitrios
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kotsas
authors.forename: Themistoklis
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iliopoulos
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male