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)