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Case Reports
Transseptal biopsy of a left atrial mass with 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiographic guidance.
- Kumar Satya, Gerardo Kalife, Joseph Navarijo, Abdi Rasekh, and James M Wilson.
- Department of Cardiology, Texas Heart Institute at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
- Tex Heart Inst J. 2012 Jan 1; 39 (5): 707-10.
AbstractA 31-year-old man presented with a large cardiac mass that originated from the basal posterior left atrial wall and occupied most of the dilated atrium. Minimally invasive studies yielded inconclusive results, but the patient was considered at high risk for an open cardiac biopsy due to the size of the mass. To establish a tissue diagnosis for definitive treatment, we performed a transseptal cardiac biopsy guided by 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography. We thereby determined that the mass was a primary left atrial sarcoma. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report concerning the use of 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography for biopsy of a left atrial mass.
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