Fibroelastoma Recurrence in Left Ventricle: Rarity of Primary Cardiac Tumor
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Reinhard Besser; Falk-Udo Sack; Inna Kammerer; Manfred H. Bohrer; Christian Frank; Mohammed Al-Azani
- Source
- The Surgery Journal, Vol 01, Iss 01, Pp e35-e37 (2015)
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
transesophageal echocardiography
Cardiac Neoplasm
medicine.medical_treatment
Mitral valve replacement
lcsh:Surgery
Autopsy
lcsh:RD1-811
medicine.disease
Surgery
Recurrent Tumor
medicine.anatomical_structure
Papillary fibroelastoma
Ventricle
Mitral valve
cardiovascular system
Medicine
Radiology
business
left ventricular fibroelastoma recurrence
Cardiac Tumors
left ventricular cardiac tumor
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2378-5136
2378-5128
Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma (CPF) is a primary cardiac neoplasm usually detected by echocardiography. Left ventricular fibroelastomas are extremely rare. The incidence of CPF is between 0.0017 and 0.33% during autopsy studies. We report a 70-year-old man who had papillary fibroelastoma discovered and resected in 2005 that recurred in 2013. The tumor grew rapidly from 2013 to 2014. A bioprosthetic mitral valve was placed in 2014. Due to the location and nature of the recurrent tumor, mitral valve replacement was the treatment of choice to prevent a third recurrence of the fibroelastoma. The patient was discharged from the hospital on postoperative day 9.