Myocardial infiltration as an incidental finding in a 64-year-old woman

Kalliopi Parlamenti, Anastasia Koutsogianni, Konstantinos Lymperopoulos

Abstract


A 64-year-old female patient was referred by cardiology for further investigation, on account of abnormal findings on a routine cardiac ultrasound (US). Her medical history was unremarkable. She underwent Computerized Tomography (CT) (Fig.1) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (Fig. 2 a, b, c), which both confirmed the suspected US findings.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.36162/hjr.v8i1.477

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