The echo is often tangled structures that can be seen with tumors or other diseases. Below is an overview of normal cardiac structures that can be seen as abnormal.
| Location
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"Abnormal" structures
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| Left atrium
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- Coumadin ridge, ridge between LPV and LAA
- Atrial suture line after heart transplant
turned LAA
- Atrial septal aneurysm
- Lipomatous hypertrophy, atrial septum
- Twisted descending aorta
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| Right atrium
|
- Crista terminalis (ridge between VCI and VCS)
- Congenital valve remnants (Eustachian valve, Chiari network, Band Thebesius)
- Trabecula in RAA
- Atrial suture line after heart transplantation
- Catheters, lines, PM-wires
|
| Left ventricular
|
- Papillary muscles
- False tendon
- Prominent trabecula
- High intentity transient spots in art valve(s)
|
| Right ventricle
|
- Moderator Band
- Papillary muscles
- Catheter, PM-wires
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| Aortic valve
|
- Nodules on Arantius
- Lambl's excrescences
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| Mitral
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- Redundant chorda
- Myxomateus valve tissue
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| Pericardium
|
- Epicardial fat
- Fibrinous debris in chronic pericardial effusion
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References
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J.P.M. Hamer, 'Cardiale massa's' in "Praktische echcardiografie", (2006), 1e druk 2e oplage, Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, Houten, p.205-206.