Ndunda PM, Khayyat S, Muutu T, Munguti C, Shaheen W. A Vanishing Left Atrial Cystic Mass: A Ruptured Blood Cyst?
CARDIOVASCULAR REVASCULARIZATION MEDICINE 2020;
21:73-76. [PMID:
31235432 DOI:
10.1016/j.carrev.2019.05.019]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Revised: 05/15/2019] [Accepted: 05/17/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Cardiac blood cysts are very rare in adults. Their etiology, pathogenesis, and optimal management remain unclear. We report a case of a large left atrial cystic mass with clinical and imaging characteristics of a blood cyst that vanished between chest CT angiogram and trans-esophageal echocardiogram examinations done 2 days apart, without embolic phenomena. This patient likely had a blood cyst that spontaneously ruptured. This case is unusual since we did not find a case published in the English literature of a spontaneously ruptured blood cyst.
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