Two‐ and Three‐Dimensional Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiographic Findings in Epithelioid Hemangioma Involving the Mitral Valve

Abstract

We are describing two-dimensional and live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic as well as two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiographic findings in an elderly patient with epithelioid hemangioma involving the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve.

Case report: a rare case of pedunculated LV hemangioma evaluated by 3D echocardiography and compared with myxoma

“…The unique feature in our case was a highly mobile LV tumor seen on echocardiography giving a superficial impression of a myxoma. However, careful cropping of 3D datasets revealed densely packed small echolucent spaces which uniformly extended all the way to periphery . This feature indicated the presence of hemangioma rather than a myxoma in which the echolucent spaces are generally sparse, of variable sizes and do not extend to the periphery (movie clip S4: myxoma; Fig.…”

“…Extensive PubMed search did not show any previously published report on 3D echo features of LV hemangioma. The first detailed report on 3D echo findings of epitheloid hemangioma of the mitral valve and its differentiation from myxoma was by Dod et al …”

Incremental benefit of three‐dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in the assessment of a primary pericardial hemangioma

“…Hemangiomas are benign tumors that may rarely develop in the cardiac region . Pericardial involvement is even more rare (Figure ) …”

“…Initial cropping of the 3D datasets in an anteroposterior direction demonstrated a heterogenous pattern similar to 2DTTE and 2DTEE but cropping of the anterior and mid portions of the mass revealed multiple closely packed echolucent areas that extended all the way to the periphery. These findings which were not seen on 2DTTE or 2DTEE in this patient have been previously described by 3D echocardiography as characteristic of cardiac hemangiomas . These represent vascular channels which are located throughout the tumor including the peripheral region.…”

An Exceptional Cause of Progressive Dyspnoea in a Renal Transplant Recipient: Hemangioma of the Mitral Valve

“…They can be found in any age group, but occur most commonly in childhood. To our knowledge, less than 10 cases of mitral valve hemangiomas have been documented in the literature [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]. …”