Golf balls

    Two children, 7 and 14 years old.

    Both has a small hyperechoic lesions in the projection of the heart apex, the first in the RV, the second in the LV.

    In obstetric ultrasound screening such lesions are called " golf ball" and is etiologically associated with disorders of calcium metabolism.

    Echogenic Intracardiac Foci - EIF.

    Child 1 month came to the screening.

    On ultrasound in the projection of the chords fixing to the papillary muscle of the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve, a hyperechoic inclusion / focus of about 5 mm in size is visualized (mineralization?).