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Published on: June 11, 2019
Could papillary fibroelastoma in the tricuspid valve cause thrombocytopenia?
Mehmet Işık1, Sıddıka Fındık2, Sefa Tatar3
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Türkiye.
Abstract:
Cardiac myxoma and papillary fibroelastoma are the most common benign primary cardiac tumors in adults. In this brief report, we described a male patient with a mass in the tricuspid valve (papillary fibroelastoma as a result of pathology), who presented with thrombocytopenia and underwent tricuspid valve replacement. The patient was followed and treated by the hematology clinic due to thrombocytopenia, but a definitive diagnosis could not be made. The patient was incidentally diagnosed while being investigated for urinary stones. Thrombocytopenia improved in the postoperative follow-up. The successful surgical procedure, along with echocardiography and pathology images of the patient, was shared.
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