Multiple Cardiac Papillary Fibroelastomas - Are They Really Rare or Underdiagnosed?

Heart Lung Circ. 2019 Apr;28(4):e83-e85. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2018.08.020. Epub 2018 Sep 15.

Authors

Anna Nowacka¹, Valentina Rancati², Aurelien Roumy³, Pierre Monney², Carlo E Marcucci⁴, Matthias Kirsch³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: Anna.Nowacka@chuv.ch.
² Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.

PMID: 30415831
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2018.08.020

No abstract available

Keywords: Aortic valve replacement; Cardiac tumours; Case report; Human immunodeficiency virus infection; Multiple papillary fibroelastomas.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

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Echocardiography, Transesophageal*
Female
Fibroma / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Humans