Cardiac Myxoma: Characterization by 3d-Transillumination Rendering in the Era of Multimodal Imaging. A Case Report

Abstract

Raquel Perez Barquın, Jose Maria Cuesta, Cesar Rodriguez Canedo, Adrian Margarida De Castro, Jon Zubiaur Zamacola, David Serrano Lozano, Jose Maria Gomez Ortega, Cristina Ruisanchez, and Jesus Zarauza Navarro

The heart is an infrequent location for primary tumors. When they appear, they usually emerge as myxomas (slow growth bening forms). We present a 68-year-old man who was discovered of a left atrial mass in a routinary echocardiography. A transesophageal test was then performed to better study the finding. We highlight “Transillumination”as a new technology which processes the 3D image by operating with the image’s enlightenment. It provides a better tissue characterization, allowing a superior description of the mass, in this case. The bulk was surgically removed, and its histological analysis established the diagnosis of a myxoma.

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