Publication Date
7-1-2022
Journal
The Texas Heart Journal
DOI
10.14503/THIJ-21-7725
PMID
35994342
Publication Date(s)
July 2022
Language
English
PMCID
PMC9427062
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
8-22-2022
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-Print
Published Open-Access
yes
Keywords
Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma/diagnostic imaging, cardiac surgical procedures/methods, fibroma/diagnosis/surgery, heart neoplasms/surgery, treatment outcome
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
A 60-year-old man was about to undergo minimally invasive aortic valve replacement when transesophageal echocardiography revealed an intracardiac mass on the left atrial free wall. Multimodal images from 5 months earlier had shown no mass. We converted the procedure to open surgery. The excised mass resembled a cardiac myxoma but was determined to be a papillary fibroelastoma. This case illustrates that papillary fibroelastomas can form and grow rapidly, warranting alertness for their unexpected discovery before and during cardiac surgical procedures.