Giant Pericardial Lipoma as an Unusual Cause of Cardiomegaly.
10.3904/kjm.2014.87.3.338
- Author:
Woo Jin KIM
1
;
Kye Hun KIM
;
Jae Yeong CHO
;
Youngkeun AHN
;
Myung Ho JEONG
;
Jeong Gwan CHO
;
Jong Chun PARK
Author Information
1. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea. christiankyehun@hanmail.net
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Cardiomegaly;
Lipoma;
Pericardium
- MeSH:
Cardiomegaly*;
Diagnosis;
Echocardiography;
Heart;
Heart Neoplasms;
Lipoma*;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Pericardial Effusion;
Pericardium;
Radiography, Thoracic
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2014;87(3):338-342
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Cardiomegaly is a commonly encountered clinical presentation on simple chest radiographs, and it usually indicates the enlargement of one or more cardiac chambers. However, cardiomegaly less commonly comes from abnormalities in the structures adjacent to the heart, including pericardial effusion, enlarged great vessels, or mediastinal tumors. Pericardial lipoma is a rare primary cardiac tumor that can grow to a large size by the time of diagnosis and result in huge cardiomegaly because of a lack of symptoms. Here, we report a rare case of giant pericardial lipoma that presented as huge cardiomegaly on simple chest radiographs. Multi-modality cardiovascular imaging, including echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, played a key role in the diagnosis and development of a therapeutic treatment plan for the present case.
