Echocardiographic diagnosis of pulmonary vein varix

Circ J. 2003 Sep;67(9):796-8. doi: 10.1253/circj.67.796.

Abstract

Pulmonary vein varix is a rare abnormality, often resembling a pulmonary or mediastinal mass on chest radiographs, and pulmonary angiography has been the mainstay of diagnosis. An unusual case of pulmonary vein varix was clearly defined by echocardiography performed in a 47-year-old woman with chest discomfort who had been found to have an abnormal structure behind the cardiac silhouette on a chest radiograph. The diagnosis of left lower pulmonary vein varix was noninvasively confirmed by transthoracic echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Angiography
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echocardiography*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Middle Aged
  • Pulmonary Veins / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pulmonary Veins / pathology
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Varicose Veins / diagnosis
  • Varicose Veins / diagnostic imaging*