Epicardial lipomatous hypertrophy: the unknown entity. unknown entity. Diagnosis and treatment
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lipomatous cordis, cardiac lipomatous hypertrophy, cardiac tamponade, cardiac computed tomography.Abstract
Cardiac lipomatous hypertrophy (CLH) or lipomatous cordis is a not well known cardiac pathology which diagnosis and treatment remain difficult. It is caused by adipocyte hypertrophy and its main feature is non capsulated fatty tissue accumulation. It ́s normally located at the interatrial septum and less frequently at an epicardic location. Having an initial wrong diagnosis of pericardial effusion by transthoracic ecocardiography in most of the symptomatic cases described, epicardial CLH can be studied now by new cardiac imaging techniques such as cardiac computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance with high sensitivity and specificity
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