title: Asymptomatic papillary fibroelastoma of the aortic valve in a young woman - a case report.
abstract: Echocardiography represents an invaluable diagnostic tool for the detection of intracardiac masses while simultaneously provides information about their size, location, mobility and attachment site as well as the presence and extent of any consequent hemodynamic derangement. A 29-year-old asymptomatic young woman with incidental transthoracic echocardiographic (TTE) discovery of an aortic valve mass is presented. The 2-dimensional TTE showed a mobile, pedunculated mass, attached by a thin stalk to the aortic surface of the right coronary aortic cusp at the junction of its base with the anterior aortic wall. The importance of valve sparing tumour resection even in asymptomatic patients is emphasised.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece. fparth@med.uoc.gr
authors.forename: Fragiskos
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Parthenakis
authors.forename: Evangelia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nyktari
authors.forename: Alexandros
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Patrianakos
authors.forename: Antonis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pitsis
authors.forename: Anthoula
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Asimaki
authors.forename: Panos
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vardas
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000328:Adult; D001021:Aortic Valve; D001027:Aortography; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D014463:Ultrasonography