An integrated imaging approach with magnetic resonance imaging can reveal pitfall pleural effusion at echocardiography

Gianluca Di Bella; Carmelo Anfuso; Scipione Carerj; Rocco Donato; Concetta Zito; Fabio Minutoli; Salvatore Patanè; Sebastiano Coglitore

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.11.047

An integrated imaging approach with magnetic resonance imaging can reveal pitfall pleural effusion at echocardiography

Int J Cardiol. 2009 Apr 17;133(3):e99-100. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.11.047. Epub 2008 Jan 11.

Authors

Gianluca Di Bella, Carmelo Anfuso, Scipione Carerj, Rocco Donato, Concetta Zito, Fabio Minutoli, Salvatore Patanè, Sebastiano Coglitore

PMID: 18191245
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.11.047

Abstract

We report an echocardiographic pitfall, where a hypoecogenic area mimicking a pleural effusion was detected by CMR as an area of normal pulmonary parenchyma between the posterior left atrial wall and the dilated right pulmonary vein.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Echocardiography, Doppler / methods*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
Male
Middle Aged
Pleural Effusion / diagnostic imaging*
Pleural Effusion / pathology*
Pleural Effusion / physiopathology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / pathology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / physiopathology