title: [Two cardiac tumors with left ventricular location: myxoma and papillary fibroelastoma].
abstract: We report 2 clinical cases of cardiac tumors, myxoma and papillary fibroelastoma, with unusual ventricular location. The clinical manifestations of these entities are not well described. Usually the patients are asymptomatic even if they have a high risk for cardiac and systemic embolic events so that these neoplasms are recognized during life more often in patients evaluated for embolic events of unclear pathology. The routine use of echocardiography has increased the detection of these tumors in living patients. In the surgical treatment, the approach should allow minimal manipulation of the tumors, inspection of all four cardiac chambers to overlook if tumors are multifocal and provide adequate exposure for complete resection. In our experience, we used two surgical approaches, via the left ventricle and via the aortic valve.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Cardiochirurgia, A.C.O. San Filippo Neri, Roma. s.leonardi@sanfilipponeri.roma.it
authors.forename: Francesco Saverio
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Leonardi Cattolica
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Minati
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Testa
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sordini
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Costantino
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gentili
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alois
authors.forename: Rocco
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gallo
authors.forename: Pasquale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Madaro
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Auriti
authors.forename: Cinzia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bernardi
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Staibano
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D009232:Myxoma / Q000175:diagnosis*