The Coumadin Ridge: An Important Example of a Left Atrial Pseudotumour demonstrated by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Authors

  • Sanjay Gupta
  • Sven Plein
  • John Greenwood

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3941/jrcr.v3i9.210

Keywords:

Cardiac magnetic resonance, coumadin ridge

Abstract

A coumadin ridge is an occasionally observed, but seldom described structure seen in the left atrium during cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. In this case, the coumadin ridge was particularly prominent and could easily have been mistaken for a tumour or thrombus. Using the combined assessment from different CMR pulse sequences, we were able to correctly identify it as the coumadin ridge. We make the reader aware of the location and the CMR imaging features of this structure so that misdiagnosis may be avoided.

Author Biographies

Sanjay Gupta

Specialist Registrar in Cardiology

Sven Plein

Consultant Cardiologist and Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow 

John Greenwood

Consultant Cardiologist and Senior Lecturer
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Published

2009-08-23

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 9 (2009)

Section

Cardiac Imaging

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