Cardiac masses and tumours
Teresa López‐Fernández, Peter Buser
Abstract
Abstract The care for cancer patients has dramatically improved over the past century. Cardio-oncology, the multidisciplinary cardiovascular care of cancer patients, has been proposed as a new approach to improve prevention, early identification, and management of cardiotoxicity. However this field is not simply limited to complications of cancer therapies, it also encompasses cardiac neoplasias. Cardiac masses include tumours, thrombi, cysts, calcific lesions, vegetations, and other rare conditions. The present chapter will cover all these entities from the imaging diagnostic perspective. Although echocardiography is generally the first imaging tool used, tissue characterization by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) can be particularly helpful for differential diagnosis.