Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma is a benign and rare primary tumor of the heart that is most frequently located in the aortic or the mitral valves. Papillary fibroelastoma arising from the left atrium is exceedingly rare, comprising less than 7% of a...
Background and Clinical Significance: Primary cardiac tumors are among the rarest types of tumor, and until the mid-20th century, they were diagnosed only post-mortem or during other surgical interventions. With the rapid evolution of cardiovascular...
Background and Clinical Significance: Papillary Fibroelastoma is a benign primary cardiac tumor, commonly located in a valvular position, predominantly on the aortic valve. Case Presentation: We present a 73-year-old male patient with a medical histo...
Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas (CPFE) are exceptional primary benign cardiac tumours affecting the heart valves. We report here the case of a 15-year-old boy in whom echocardiography performed for non-specific chest pain during follow-up for bicusp...
We describe a patient with recurrent, brief episodes of chest discomfort caused by a highly mobile papillary fibroelastoma originating from the aortic wall and intermittently encroaching on the right coronary artery ostium. Initial 2D and 3D transtho...
Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is a noninvasive examination whose main purpose is to exclude significant stenosis in the coronary arteries. The obtained computed tomography images may also provide information about other coexisting p...
A 51-year-old patient suffered from recurrent atypical thoracic pain. Clinical examination, cardiac biomarkers and electrocardiography were unremarkable [...]
Background: Cardiac tumors are rare neoplasms with a wide spectrum of clinical presentations, ranging from asymptomatic cases to fatal outcomes. According to the 2021 thoracic tumor classification of the World Health Organization (WHO), papillary fib...
We present a challenging case of myocardial infarction with partial intermittent obstruction of the left main coronary due to a mass of unknown origin in an otherwise healthy 34-year-old male.
Cardiac masses are space occupying lesions within the cardiac cavities or adjacent to the pericardium. They include frequently diagnosed clinical entities such as clots and vegetations, common benign tumors such as myxomas and papillary fibroelastoma...
Primary cardiac tumours are rare clinical observations, different from secondary neoplasms (ten times more frequent), and 90% of all primary cardiac tumours are benign. Myxoma is by far the most frequent benign tumour (75%), typically located in the...
An emergence of evidence suggests that severe COVID-19 is associated with an increased risk of developing breast and gastrointestinal cancers. The aim of this research was to assess the risk of heart tumors development in patients who have had COVID-...