title: Papillary fibroelastoma involving the left ventricular wall.
abstract: A 71-year-old white woman presented to her primary care physician for a routine visit and was found to have a new, previously undocumented cardiac murmur. A subsequent transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a 1 cm mobile mass arising from the lateral free wall of the left ventricle. Transesophageal echocardiography later confirmed these findings. The patient underwent a left ventriculotomy and excision of a.7 cm friable mass, which was later identified as a papillary fibroelastoma (PFE) by routine histopathologic studies. We present this unique case ith a review of the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Schoondyke
authors.forename: Jonathan W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Burress
authors.forename: Bahaeddin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shabaneh
authors.forename: Tamar A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Giorgadze
authors.forename: Patrick N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Costello
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fahrig
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Whitaker
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans