Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum

• Author(s): Rodrigues, H ; Donato, P ; Neves, N ; Marques, C
• Date: 2005
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/49
• Origin: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Hipertrofia; Septo Auricular; Ecocardiografia
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Authors describe a case of Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum diagnosed by MR. A mass in right atrium with 18cm2 was detected by echocardiography, and later MR showed a homogeneous mass, with high intensity in T1 images and a decrease of signal with fat-suppression.