TY - JOUR
T1 - Coronary artery stent mimicking intracardiac thrombus on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging due to signal loss
T2 - case report
AU - Qayyum, Abbas Ali
AU - Vejlstrup, Niels Grove
AU - Ahtarovski, Kiril Aleksov
AU - Kofoed, Klaus Fuglsang
AU - Kastrup, Jens
N1 - Crown Copyright © 2012. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - Since the introduction of percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary artery disease, thousands of patients have been treated with the implantation of coronary stents. Moreover, several of the patients with coronary stent undergo cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging every year. This case report is of a 77-year-old man who was previously treated with the implantation of a coronary stent in the left circumflex artery. He underwent CMR imaging, which revealed a process 14×21 mm in the left atrium. Cardiac contrast computed tomography did not demonstrate any cardiac pathology. While the signal loss on MRI associated with implanted metallic devices is known, we report a case where an implanted coronary stent in the left circumflex artery led to an intracardiac signal loss mimicking intracardiac thrombus/tumor.
AB - Since the introduction of percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary artery disease, thousands of patients have been treated with the implantation of coronary stents. Moreover, several of the patients with coronary stent undergo cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging every year. This case report is of a 77-year-old man who was previously treated with the implantation of a coronary stent in the left circumflex artery. He underwent CMR imaging, which revealed a process 14×21 mm in the left atrium. Cardiac contrast computed tomography did not demonstrate any cardiac pathology. While the signal loss on MRI associated with implanted metallic devices is known, we report a case where an implanted coronary stent in the left circumflex artery led to an intracardiac signal loss mimicking intracardiac thrombus/tumor.
U2 - 10.1016/j.mri.2012.02.023
DO - 10.1016/j.mri.2012.02.023
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 22495236
SN - 0730-725X
VL - 30
SP - 889
EP - 892
JO - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
JF - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
IS - 6
ER -