Background: A 75-year-old male with a history of myocardial infarction and recent transient ischemic attack was referred to a cardiology clinic for preoperative evaluation before a cystectomy.

Papillary fibroelastoma is the third most common primary tumor of the heart and is most likely to involve the cardiac valves. Like myxomas, they arise from the endocardium in most patients and since ...

A 28-year-old man with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) was admitted to the cardiac surgery department for a resection of a single tumor with papillary fibroelastoma morphology in the aortic leaflet, ...

Cardiac tumours (or masses) are rare, abnormal growths in the heart or heart valves that can be malignant or benign Increasing awareness of the presenting and radiological features of cardiac growths, ...

The tumor was histologically diagnosed as a papillary fibroelastoma covered with CD34-positive endothelial cells. This tumor is . . . Are you a member of an institution such as a university or ...

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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic cardiologists have developed a new catheter-based technique to remove papillary fibroelastomas — the most common type of benign heart tumors — in patients who are ...