Cardiac sarcomas are extremely rare primary malignant tumors of the heart. In this article, we present the case of a 70-year-old female, who was found to have a left atrial mass during a routine outpatient transthoracic echocardiography. Further investigation with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the presence of a bilobulated mass with heterogeneous enhancement. Left atrial myxoma w...

• The ventricular myocardium responds to a chronic increased work load by an increase in the myocardial mass. The functional significance of this adaptation has been an area of interest particularly because of the common clinical finding of an increased cardiac mass in cardiac failure. Since an increased myocardial mass is predominantly the result of the enlargement rather than the multiplicati...

A 67-year-old asymptomatic male was admitted for evaluation of his arterial hypertension. The routine echocardiographic study revealed a large tumour in the dilated right atrium. The mass appeared to arise from the posterior wall of the right atrium. After infusion of a contrast agent, the mass appeared to fill with the contrast agent, ruling out the possibility of the mass being a clot. Transe...

A 68-year-old female patient with a history of hyperlipidaemia and fatty liver was referred for evaluation of an incidentally detected asymptomatic cardiac mass. Computed tomographic scan imaging showed a large calcified mass in the left atrium. Echocardiography revealed a 2.4 1.5 cm, well-circumscribed, round, high echoic mass with severe calcification and low mobility attached to the lower ri...