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Case Reports
. 2015 Oct 19;5(5):28449.
doi: 10.3402/jchimp.v5.28449. eCollection 2015.

Cardiac lipoma

Imtiaz Ismail  1 , Khalid Al-Khafaji  2 , Monica Mutyala  2 , Saurabh Aggarwal  3 , William Cotter  2 , Hosam Hakim  2 , Sandeep Khosla  2 , Rohit Arora  2
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Cardiac lipoma

Imtiaz Ismail et al. J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect. .

Abstract

Lipomas of the heart are encapsulated tumors that are composed primarily of mature fat cells. Cardiac lipomas can originate either from subendocardium (approximately 50%), subpericardium (25%), or from the myocardium (25%) and may be located more frequently in left ventricle or right atrium. We report a 74-year-old female who presented with dyspnea on exertion and was found to have 5×5 cm mass occupying most of the right atrium on a transesophageal echocardiogram.

Keywords: TEE; cardiac; dyspnea; lipoma.

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5×5 cm mass in the right atrium.
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5×5 cm mass in the right atrium.
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