[Repeated cerebral embolism in a patient with papillary fibroelastoma of the mitral valve detected by two-dimensional echocardiography].
We report a 68 years-old woman with repeated cerebral embolism, secondary to a papillary fibroelastoma of mitral valve, located in its ventricular side. It was detected by two-dimensional echocardiography. Surgical treatment was satisfactory.
Ortiz de Murua
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Sección de Cardiología, Hospital General de Albacete, Madrid.
Hernando
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Arenas
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Duarte
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Fernández Calella
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D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000150:complications*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D008943:Mitral Valve; D012008:Recurrence
Embolismo cerebral de repetición en una enferma portadora de fibroelastoma papilar de la válvula mitral, detectado mediante ecocardiografía bidimensional.