Right atrial mass in a patient with an indwelling central venous catheter

Abstract

Abstract Right atrial masses occur in different clinical conditions such as primary or secondary tumours of the heart, atrial thrombus formation and tricuspid valve vegetations. We describe a right atrial mass in a woman with a subclavian venous catheter which was diagnosed to be an organized calcified thrombus after surgical extraction. Thrombus is a common cause of an intracardiac mass, and indwelling central venous catheters especially if the tip is placed in the right atrium may cause abnormal mass formation consistent with a thrombus.