Donate Help Contact The AHA Sign In Home
American Heart Association
Circulation
Search: search_blue_button Advanced Search
« Previous Article | Table of Contents | Next Article »
Circulation. 1998;97:2188

This Article
Right arrow Extract Freely available
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Carson, W.
Right arrow Articles by Chiu, S.-S.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Carson, W.
Right arrow Articles by Chiu, S.-S.

(Circulation. 1998;97:2188.)
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.

Images in Cardiovascular Medicine

Eustachian Valve Mimicking Intracardiac Mass

Wangden Carson, MD, DPH, DPhil; ; Shi-Shau Chiu, MD

From the Cardiovascular Center of the Taipei Metropolitan Chung-Hsin Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.

Correspondence to Wangden Carson, MD, Cardiovascular Center, Taipei Metropolitan Chung-Hsin Hospital, 145 Cheng Chou Rd, Taipei, Taiwan 101, ROC.



View larger version (93K):
[in this window]
[in a new window]
  		Figure 1. Four-chamber view of two-dimensional echocardiogram of a 74-year-old female patient with diabetes, ischemic heart disease, heart failure, colostomy, and fever. Arrowheads indicate Eustachian valve within right atrium (RA) during end-systolic phase. LA indicates left atrium; LV, left ventricle; and RV, right ventricle.



View larger version (93K):
[in this window]
[in a new window]
  		Figure 2. Subcostal view of Eustachian valve from upper part of intra-atrial septum to tricuspid valve annulus. RA indicates right atrium; LA, left atrium.

Footnotes

The editor of Images in Cardiovascular Medicine is Hugh A. McAllister, Jr, MD, Chief, Department of Pathology, St Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Texas Heart Institute, and Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of Texas Medical School and Baylor College of Medicine.

Circulation encourages readers to submit cardiovascular images to Dr Hugh A. McAllister, Jr, St Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Texas Heart Institute, 6720 Bertner Ave, MC1–267, Houston, TX 77030.




This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Eur J EchocardiogrHome page
J. L.C. De Keyser, M.-C. Herregods, K. Dujardin, and W. Mullens
The Eustachian valve in pulmonary embolism: Rescue or perilous?
Eur J Echocardiogr, August 1, 2006; 7(4): 336 - 338.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

This Article
Right arrow Extract Freely available
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Carson, W.
Right arrow Articles by Chiu, S.-S.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Carson, W.
Right arrow Articles by Chiu, S.-S.

Circulation Home | Subscriptions | Archives | Feedback | Authors | Help | AHA Journals Home | Search
Copyright © 1998 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.