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Papillary fibroelastoma involving the left ventricular wall
Jeffrey W Schoondyke1, Jonathan W Burress, Bahaeddin Shabaneh
1Department of Cardiology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA.
Abstract:
A 71-year-old white woman presented to her primary care physician for a routine visit and was found to have a new, previously undocumented cardiac murmur. A subsequent transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a 1 cm mobile mass arising from the lateral free wall of the left ventricle. Transesophageal echocardiography later confirmed these findings. The patient underwent a left ventriculotomy and excision of a.7 cm friable mass, which was later identified as a papillary fibroelastoma (PFE) by routine histopathologic studies. We present this unique case ith a review of the literature.
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