Discussion:
Echocardiography is an available and suitable tool for the initial
evaluation of the mass and checking the presence of obstruction in the
intracardiac cavities or heart valves. Lipoma in echocardiography
usually presents as a broad-based, homogenous, encapsulated and
echogenic mass, usually without calcification within the cardiac
chambers or the pericardium with a clear boundary. Lipoma exhibits no
enhancement in echocardiographic contrast imaging.(3-5)
CT scan of the heart and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) are
very useful for more accurate diagnosis. Most lipomas in cardiac
magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) are homogeneous fat signal on all
sequences. To confirm the presence of fat in cardiac tumor Signal drop
out on fat-suppressed sequences can be used. Lipoma is a hypovascular
non-enhancing tumour and sometimes may demonstrate septa. (6, 7)
Its treatment is resection in symptomatic cases, but in asymptomatic
cases, the patient can be monitored without resection with serial
imaging. If resection is performed, recurrence is rare, but close
follow-up is still recommended.(8)