An Uncommon Cause of Dyspnea: Usefulness of Multimodality Cardiac Imaging

Nuria Pueyo Balsells; Lucía Matute-Blanco; Marta Zofia Zielonka; José Luis Reyes-Juarez; Rafael Rodríguez-Lecoq

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.09.021

An Uncommon Cause of Dyspnea: Usefulness of Multimodality Cardiac Imaging

JACC Case Rep. 2021 Dec 1;3(17):1855-1857. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.09.021.

Authors

Nuria Pueyo Balsells¹, Lucía Matute-Blanco¹, Marta Zofia Zielonka¹, José Luis Reyes-Juarez², Rafael Rodríguez-Lecoq³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida, Lleida, Spain.
² Department of Radiology, University Hospital Vall d´Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.

Abstract

Pericardial lipomas are very uncommon benign primary cardiac tumors. We describe the case of a patient with symptomatic large pericardial mass who presented with heart failure. Multimodality cardiac imaging helped us in the diagnosis of this unusual entity. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.).

Keywords: computed tomography; imaging; shortness of breath; ultrasound.