Aortic valve papillary fibroelastoma. A diagnosis by transthoracic echocardiography

Chest. 1994 Jun;105(6):1885-7. doi: 10.1378/chest.105.6.1885.

Abstract

Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas are unusual, frond-like growths typically found on cardiac valves, diagnosed incidentally on autopsy or cardiac surgery, but rarely during life. We report a rare case of an aortic valve papillary fibroelastoma detected by transthoracic echocardiography and confirmed by histologic study.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aortic Valve / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortic Valve / pathology
  • Echocardiography / methods*
  • Fibroma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Fibroma / pathology
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged