Medical Must-See: A heavy heart or cardiac cement emboli?

This patient was just the third case reported in the literature.
Rachel Fieldhouse
Axial CT image of the heart illustrates scattered small nodular and linear hyperdense cement emboli attached to the right ventricular free wall.

A routine CT scan has led doctors to a rare discovery: cardiac emboli caused by bone cement that had gone astray.

The 38-year-old patient had a history of osteoporosis secondary to hyperparathyroidism and had received antiresorptive injections for two years.