Circulation Journal
Online ISSN : 1347-4820
Print ISSN : 1346-9843
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Intracardiac Echocardiography-Guided Cardiac Tumor Biopsy
Taiki HigoMasao TakemotoKiyohiro OgawaShujiro InoueKen-ichi EshimaHideo TadaKenji Sunagawa
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Article ID: CJ-08-0043

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A 63-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with the chief complaint of new onset chest discomfort and pretibial pitting edema. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a large invasive tumor on the heart protruding into the right atrium and right ventricle, which obstructed the outflow tract. She underwent transvenous 9Fr, 9-MHz ultra intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) (EP Technologies, Boston Scientific Corporation, San Jose, CA, USA) guided biopsy, and a diagnosis of malignant lymphoma was established from the specimen obtained. ICE-guided cardiac tumor biopsy may be one of the most useful strategies for diagnosis of cardiac tumors.
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