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Cardiac Findings on Non-Gated Thoracic CT Case 9

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All right. Let's go to the next case moving

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right along here's case 9.

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And let's blow this one up a bit and I'll start

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from the top. I'll scroll through. So I want you to

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look at everything. Now. I'm going to give you the fact that

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this person has some coronary artery disease. So that's that's

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a given here.

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Let's scroll on down and look at the heart all

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the chambers.

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Everything that's going on.

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I'll scroll back up.

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Okay. So let's open the polling for this case and

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see what people think. Where is the most significant abnormality?

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And just ask yourself what you think this abnormality is?

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And let's put up the poll question.

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And I'll continue scrolling through this.

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Blow up the hurt a little bit more.

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Okay, so let's close the poll question.

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And let's see what people thought.

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All right. Where did you think the most significant abnormality was? Some people

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thought cardiac Chambers some people thought septum and

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I've left that broad so they could mean enter

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atrial or interventricular septum and then

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other people thought myocardium and it is true

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that The myocardium

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looks a little bit thick the LV looks a little bit thick

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but let me show you the most significant abnormality here.

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So what about this so along the

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inter atrial septum you see a bulge

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a big bulge here and it's bulging

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from the left side to the right side and at

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first glance she might think wow, you know,

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I'm showing you another case of an ASD

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and atrial septal defect. But in this case, it's important

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now that there are other things that can look somewhere to

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an interracial septal Defector and

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atrial Supple defect and this is actually and interest

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atrial septal aneurysm

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So the supplement can actually thin and become

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aneurysmal and the reason this is important to

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recognize is first of all not to

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mistake it for something else not to mistake it for

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a huge ASD per se and not to

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mistake it for a mass. And also the other thing that's

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associated with these is you know, a PFO

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paid in Freeman o'valley tends

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to be highly associated with this particular

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abnormality. So when you see

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one of these you may want to just recommend getting an echo just

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to check and see if patients have a pain

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Freeman a valley that's associated with this. So this

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isn't interracial septal aneurysm and the other

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Interesting thing about these is that this is

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the normal direction for them to be facing. They should be

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bulging to the right side because of the higher pressure

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on the left side, but these pressures

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can be reversed in cases of elevated right-sided

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pressures, like pulmonary emboli acute right

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heart strain and just chronic homemade hypertension

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and they can actually then flip over

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and bulge from the right side to the left side and

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I've seen that happen acutely. So that's something interesting

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to look for.

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Faculty

Brent P Little, MD

Thoracic Radiologist & Assistant Program Director for the Radiology Residency

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Tags

Myocardium

Congenital

Chest CT

Chest

Cardiac Chambers

Cardiac CT (SCCT Cat B1 Video Case)

Cardiac

CTA

CT