Cardiac/Vascular Flashcards
Cardiac MRI linear midwall LGE?
DCM
Adult = think Alcohol or idopathic
Child = Muscular dystrophy
IV
Cardiac MRI lateral free wall midwall and epicadrial and septal epicardial LGE DDx ?
- Myocarditis
- Sarcoidosis
also Chagas, Fabrys
Cardiac MRI focal areas anteroseptal and inferoseptal midwall (RV insertion points) LGE?
HOCM
Septal wall thickness.
Systolic anterior motion (SAM) of mitral valve → anterior leaflet pulled into LVOT via Venturi effect
Cardiac MRI global endocardial LGE DDx?
- Amyloidosis
-causes restrictive cardiomyopathy and thus diastolic dysfunction
-speckle appearances on ECHO)
- increase in the thickness of the interatrial septum and right atrial
free wall > 6 mm
- concentric LV hypertrophy - systemic sclerosis
- Post cardiac transplant
Which coronary artery anomaly arises from the right coronary sinus and courses between the aorta and pulmonary trunk?
Inter-arterial LCA
Dangerous, risk sudden death
Bi-atrial dilation, normal ventricular cavity size, abnormal diastolic functionand preserved systolic function?
Restrictive cardiomyopathy
DDx -
Amyloid (Thick myocardial wall )
Haemochromatosis
Eosinophilic
Long T1 is needed for amyloid - ‘difficult to suppress myocardium’
Eosinophilic (Loeffler) - bilateral ventricular thrombus
Thickened pericardium (>2mm MR or 0.4cm CT), Interventricular dependence, bi-atrial dilatation and normal ventricular size?
Constrictive pericarditis
**Ca2+ pericardium
TB or viral
Fibrofatty replacement of the RV myocardium. Dialted RV and reduced function?
ARVC
Common site for cardiac mets?
Pericardium
30x more common than primary cardiac
Melanoma*, Lung, mesothelioma, lymphoma, breast
Most common primary malignant cardiac tumour in adults and features?
Angiosarcoma
**Right atrium **and involve more than one chamber
Broad based attachment
Can encase the Coronary
Present - septic emboli or invasion into pericardium = effusion/tamponade
Heterogeneously high signal on T1 and T2-weighted images with heterogeneous enhancement
Undifferentiated sarcoma mostly arises in the left atrium, although they can also involve the cardiac valve
DDx
Lymphoma
- Primary cardiac lymphomas
- Right atrium, with frequent involvement of more than one chamber and
invasion of the pericardium
-isointense on T1-weighted images and heterogeneously hyperintense on T2-weighted images
Most common primary pericardial malignancy
Mesothelioma
Most common benign cardiac tumour in adults?
Atrial Myxoma
LA and stalk attached to interatrial septum.
Prolapse through MV
Enhance with Gd (thrombus will not)
Associated with
Carneys syndrome (myxoma, facial/buccal blue neavi, sertoli tumours testes)
Most common fetal cardiac tumour?
Rhabdomyoma
LV. Associated with TS
Second commonest in childhood?
Fibroma
IV septum. T1 and T2 dark. Avid enhancement
Cardiac tumour arising from the valve, mobile, no valve dysfuncrtion?
Papillary Fibroelastoma
can act as focus for platelet aggregation and thus septic emboli
Low on T2
RWMA and thinned myocardium, low T2 signal, abnormal fixed perfusion will not redistribute delayed thallium?
Myocardial scar/chronic infarct
RWMA, High T2 signal and normal thallium perfusion ?
Stunned myocardium
RWMA, abnormal fixed decreased perfusion. Redistribution delayed thallium and take up tracery on FDG PET ?
Hibernating myocardium
Signs of LA enlargement on CXR ?
Splaying carina (>90deg)
Double density sign
Dumbell bilobed fat density in the atrial septum ?
Lipomatous hypertrophy of the intra-atrial septum
Spare the fossa ovalis = thus bilobed
if doesnt spare think LIPOMA
Hot on PET - brown fat
Supravalvular aortic or pulmonary stenosis
Williams
Bicuspid AV and coarctation?
Turners
Cyanotic, Box shaped heart, enlarged RA, atrialised RV (small) and TR?
Ebsteins (Tricuspid atresia)
Mother use of lithium.
Most common aortic arch anomaly
Left arch aberrant right subclavian artery
Posterior indentation of oesophagus.
If symptomatic = Dysphagia lusoria
Indentation both oesophagus ‘reverse S’
Posterior indention and anterior indentation of the trachea?
Double aortic arch
Most common vascular ring
What is pulmonary artery sling
Aberrant left pulmonary artery
Anomalies origin of the left pulmonary artery from the right pulmonary artery.
passes above the right main bronchus and in between the trachea and oesophagus
anterior indentation of the oesophagus and posterior trachea
Only vascular ring to between the oesophagus and trachea