title: Beating-heart surgical treatment of tricuspid valve papillary fibroelastoma: A case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas are rare. And only 15% of the papillary fibroelastomas are located on tricuspid valve. However, the treatment of papillary fibroelastomas varies.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a 75-year-old Chinese male who was hospitalized because of a right atrial mass found by echocardiography. Complete tumor excision along with Kay's tricuspid valvuloplasty surgery on beating heart under cardiopulmonary bypass was performed to the patient. Pathologic examination confirmed the definite diagnosis of cardiac papillary fibroelastoma. The recovery of the patient was uneventful and echocardiographic examination performed 6 months after surgery revealed no recurrence of the tumor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Beating-heart surgical excision is an effective and safe treatment of tricuspid papillary fibroelastomas.
authors: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
authors: Weidong
authors: W
authors: Li
authors: Junnan
authors: J
authors: Zheng
authors: Hengchi
authors: H
authors: Zhao
authors: Hongfei
authors: H
authors: Xu
authors: Yiming
authors: Y
authors: Ni
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014261:Tricuspid Valve