Asymptomatic papillary fibroelastoma of the aortic valve in a young woman - a case report.
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.
Parthenakis
Fragiskos
F
Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece. fparth@med.uoc.gr
Nyktari
Evangelia
E
Patrianakos
Alexandros
A
Pitsis
Antonis
A
Asimaki
Anthoula
A
Vardas
Panos
P
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