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Two months prior, a pacemaker had been placed for sinus arrest; transthoracic echocardiography at that time was normal. Progressive dyspnea and edema prompted pacemaker interrogation and imaging, which showed loss of atrial lead capture with lead position change. Multimodal imaging revealed a large right atrial mass encasing the lead along and a coronary artery, along with mediastinal lymphadenopathy, pleural and pericardial effusions, and segmental pulmonary emboli.
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At first glance, this patient may sound familiar to many hospitalists — an older gentleman with a prior pacemaker and symptoms of heart failure. What is probably less familiar to us is the approach to a cardiac mass. The “floating-vessel sign” was new to me; what does it …