Clot or Not?

摘要

class="kwd-title">Keywords: Right ventricular masses, Cardiac tumor, Cardiac thrombus, Cardiac metastases class="head no_bottom_margin" id="sec1title">IntroductionCardiac masses are rare, with a prevalence of 0.15% in echocardiographic series. The differential diagnosis for cardiac masses includes primary cardiac tumors, cardiac metastases, vegetations, thrombi, fluid-filled lesions, and artifacts. These entities have widely different implications for management and prognosis, highlighting the importance of accurately identifying the etiology of a cardiac mass. Echocardiography is a key tool for the identification and diagnosis of cardiac masses, relying on the appearance and location of the mass. Multimodality imaging permits the integration of echocardiography and other noninvasive imaging modalities to improve the characterization and differentiation of cardiac masses. This integrated approach allows tissue characterization without the use of a cardiac biopsy and its associated risks.We report a case of multiple right ventricular (RV) cardiac masses characterized using an integrated imaging approach.