Differential diagnosis of cardiac masses using contrast echocardiographic perfusion imaging

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1412-1419

  Kirkpatrick, James N ^b   Wong, Tiffany ^b   Bednarz, James E ^b   Spencer, Kirk T ^b   Sugeng, Lissa ^b   Ward, R Parker ^b   DeCara, Jeanne M ^b   Weinert, Lynn ^b   Krausz, Thomas ^b   Lang, Roberto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

A; Post impulse maximal steady state intensity level; Region of interest; ROI; VAI; Vessel area index

Indexed keywords

FS 069; PERFLUTREN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE MASS; HUMAN; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 11144358079     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2003.09.065     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Meng Q., Lai H., Lima J., Tong W., Qian Y., Lai S. Echocardiographic and pathologic characteristics of primary cardiac tumors A study of 149 cases. Int J Cardiol. 84:2002;69-75.
2. Sieswerda G.T., Kamp O., Visser C.A. Myocardial contrast echocardiography Clinical benefit and practical issues. Echocardiography. 17:2000;S25-S36.
3. Lindner J.R. Assessment of myocardial viability with myocardial contrast echocardiography. Echocardiography. 19:2002;417-425.
4. Mengozzi G., Rossini R., Palagi C., et al. Usefulness of intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography in the early left ventricular remodeling in acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol. 90:2002;713-719.
5. Wei K., Crouse L., Weiss J., et al. Comparison of usefulness of dipyridamole stress myocardial contrast echocardiography to technetium-99m sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomography for detection of coronary artery disease (PB127 multicenter phase 2 trial results). Am J Cardiol. 91:2003;1293-1298.
6. Van Camp G., Ay T., Pasquet A., et al. Quantification of myocardial blood flow and assessment of its transmural distribution with real-time power modulation myocardial contrast echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 16:2003;263-270.
7. Wiencek J.G., Feinstein S.B., Walker R., Aronson S. Pitfalls in quantitative contrast echocardiography The steps to quantitation of perfusion. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 6:1993;395-416.
8. Wei K., Jayaweera A.R., Firoozan S., Linka A., Skyba D.M., Kaul S. Quantification of myocardial blood flow with ultrasound-induced destruction of microbubbles administered as a constant venous infusion. Circulation. 97:1998;473-483.
9. Goldman J.H., Foster E. Transesophageal echocardiographic (TEE) evaluation of intracardiac and pericardial masses. Cardiol Clin. 18:2000;849-860.
10. Perchinsky M.J., Lichtenstein S.V., Tyers G.F. Primary cardiac tumors Forty years' experience with 71 patients. Cancer. 79:1997;1809-1815.
11. Grande A.M., Ragni T., Vigano M. Primary cardiac tumors A clinical experience of 12 years. Tex Heart Inst J. 20:1993;223-230.
12. Molina J.E., Edwards J.E., Ward H.B. Primary cardiac tumors Experience at the University of Minnesota. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 38:(Suppl 2):1990;183-191.
13. Greaves S.C., Zhi G., Lee R.T., et al. Incidence and natural history of left ventricular thrombus following anterior wall acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol. 80:1997;442-448.
14. Lynch M., Clements S.D., Shanewise J.S., Chen C.C., Martin R.P. Right-sided cardiac tumors detected by transesophageal echocardiography and its usefulness in differentiating the benign from the malignant ones. Am J Cardiol. 79:1997;781-784.
15. Gopal A.S., Stathopoulos J.A., Arora N., Banerjee S., Messineo F. Differential diagnosis of intracavitary tumors obstructing the right ventricular outflow tract. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 14:2001;937-940.
16. Lepper W., Shivalkar B., Rinkevich D., Belcik T., Wei K. Assessment of the vascularity of a left ventricular mass using myocardial contrast echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 15:2002;1419-1422.
17. Mottram P.M., Gelman J.S. Mitral valve thrombus mimicking a primary tumor in the antiphospholipid syndrome. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 15:2002;746-748.
18. Hasegawa T., Nakagawa S., Chino M., Kunihiro T., Ui S., Kimura M. Primary cardiac sarcoma mimicking benign myxoma A case report. J Cardiol. 39:2002;321-325.
19. Alam M. Pitfalls in the echocardiographic diagnosis of intracardiac and extracardiac masses. Echocardiography. 10:1993;181-191.
20. Menegus M.A., Greenberg M.A., Spindola-Franco H., Fayemi A. Magnetic resonance imaging of suspected atrial tumors. Am Heart J. 123:1992;1260-1268.
21. Robinson N.M., Desai J., Monaghan M.J. Atrial and pulmonary mass Intracardiac thrombus mimicking myxoma on multiplane transesophageal echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 10:1997;93-96.
22. Le D.E., Bin J.P., Coggins M.P., Wei K., Lindner J.R., Kaul S. Relation between myocardial oxygen consumption and myocardial blood volume A study using myocardial contrast echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 15:2002;857-863.
23. Fidler I.J. Critical factors in the biology of human cancer metastasis. Am Surg. 61:1995;1065-1066.
24. Spencer K.T., Grayburn P.A., Mor-Avi V., et al. Myocardial contrast echocardiography with power Doppler imaging. Am J Cardiol. 86:2000;479-481.
25. Kaul S. Myocardial contrast echocardiography 15 years of research and development. Circulation. 96:1997;3745-3760.
26. Caiani E.G., Lang R.M., DeCara J., et al. Objective assessment of left ventricular wall motion from contrast-enhanced power modulation images. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 15:2002;118-128.
27. Lindner J.R., Villanueva F.S., Dent J.M., Wei K., Sklenar J., Kaul S. Assessment of resting perfusion with myocardial contrast echocardiography Theoretical and practical considerations. Am Heart J. 139:2000;231-240.
28. Masugata H., Peters B., Lafitte S., Strachan G.M., Ohmori K., DeMaria A.N. Quantitative assessment of myocardial perfusion during graded coronary stenosis by real-time myocardial contrast echo refilling curves. J Am Coll Cardiol. 37:2001;262-269.
29. Wilson S.R., Burns P.N. Liver mass evaluation with ultrasound The impact of microbubble contrast agents and pulse inversion imaging. Semin Liver Dis. 21:2001;147-159.
30. Harvey C.J., Blomley M.J., Eckersley R.J., et al. Hepatic malignancies Improved detection with pulse-inversion us in late phase of enhancement with sh u 508a - early experience. Radiology. 216:2000;903-908.
31. Yang W.T., Tse G.M., Lam P.K., Metreweli C., Chang J. Correlation between color power Doppler sonographic measurement of breast tumor vasculature and immunohistochemical analysis of microvessel density for the quantitation of angiogenesis. J Ultrasound Med. 21:2002;1227-1235.
32. Ellegala D.B., Leong-Poi H., Carpenter J.E., et al. Imaging tumor angiogenesis with contrast ultrasound and microbubbles targeted to alpha(v)beta3. Circulation. 108:2003;336-341.
33. Dhillon G., Rodriguez-Cruz E., Kathawala M., Alqassem N. Primary cardiac myofibroblastic sarcoma Case report and review of diagnosis and treatment of cardiac tumors. Bol Asoc Med P R. 90:1998;130-133.
34. Gibbs P., Cebon J.S., Calafiore P., Robinson W.A. Cardiac metastases from malignant melanoma. Cancer. 85:1999;78-84.