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European Journal of Echocardiography 2005 6(6):461-464; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2005.02.006
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Copyright © 2005, The European Society of Cardiology

Different deformation patterns in intracardiac tumors*

Javier Ganamea, Jan D'hoogeb and Luc Mertensa,*

aPediatric Cardiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
bCardiology Department, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium

Received 9 September 2004; accepted after revision 12 February 2005.

luc.mertens{at}uz.kuleuven.ac.be

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +32 16 343865; fax: +32 16 343981.


  Abstract

We report on the ultrasound characteristics of two different intracardiac tumors in newborns. The first infant presented with multiple rhabdomyomas in the context of tuberous sclerosis. Ultrasound-based strain and strain rate analysis showed that the tumors deformed in the opposite direction from the surrounding myocardial segments. The second child presented with a large cardiac fibroma as confirmed by pathological examination. In this case strain and strain rate analysis showed the absence of deformation in the tumor. These findings suggest that this new technique could be used to differentiate between different types of myocardial tumors.

Keywords: Cardiac tumors; Strain rate; Echocardiography

* LM is a basic clinical researcher for the Fund for Scientific Research (FWO). This study was partly funded by the Belgian Foundation for Research in Pediatric Cardiology.

None of the authors have any conflict of interest or any financial disclosure.


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