title: [Repeated cerebral embolism in a patient with papillary fibroelastoma of the mitral valve detected by two-dimensional echocardiography].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Sección de Cardiología, Hospital General de Albacete, Madrid.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ortiz de Murua
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hernando
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Arenas
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Duarte
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fernández Calella
mesh_terms: 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
vernacular_title: Embolismo cerebral de repetición en una enferma portadora de fibroelastoma papilar de la válvula mitral, detectado mediante ecocardiografía bidimensional.