title: Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma: The need for a timely diagnosis.
abstract: Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas (CPFs) are the second most common primary cardiac tumors and the most common cardiac valvular tumors. Although they are histologically benign and usually asymptomatic, CPFs can lead to serious and life-threatening complications like myocardial infarction, stroke, pulmonary embolus, cardiac arrest etc. CPFs represent a rare entity in clinical medicine and literature regarding their management is limited. We report two cases which illustrate such complications arising from undiagnosed CPFs on the aortic valve. We further stress on the importance of identifying CPFs early so that they can be managed appropriately based on recommendations from the available literature.
authors.affiliation: Srikanth Yandrapalli, Bella Mehta, Pratik Mondal, Tanush Gupta, Randy Goldberg, Sachin Sule, Department of Internal Medicine, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 10595, United States.
authors.forename: Srikanth
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yandrapalli
authors.affiliation: Srikanth Yandrapalli, Bella Mehta, Pratik Mondal, Tanush Gupta, Randy Goldberg, Sachin Sule, Department of Internal Medicine, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 10595, United States.
authors.forename: Bella
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.affiliation: Srikanth Yandrapalli, Bella Mehta, Pratik Mondal, Tanush Gupta, Randy Goldberg, Sachin Sule, Department of Internal Medicine, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 10595, United States.
authors.forename: Pratik
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mondal
authors.affiliation: Srikanth Yandrapalli, Bella Mehta, Pratik Mondal, Tanush Gupta, Randy Goldberg, Sachin Sule, Department of Internal Medicine, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 10595, United States.
authors.forename: Tanush
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Srikanth Yandrapalli, Bella Mehta, Pratik Mondal, Tanush Gupta, Randy Goldberg, Sachin Sule, Department of Internal Medicine, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 10595, United States.
authors.forename: Pallavi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Khattar
authors.affiliation: Srikanth Yandrapalli, Bella Mehta, Pratik Mondal, Tanush Gupta, Randy Goldberg, Sachin Sule, Department of Internal Medicine, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 10595, United States.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fallon
authors.affiliation: Srikanth Yandrapalli, Bella Mehta, Pratik Mondal, Tanush Gupta, Randy Goldberg, Sachin Sule, Department of Internal Medicine, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 10595, United States.
authors.forename: Randy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.affiliation: Srikanth Yandrapalli, Bella Mehta, Pratik Mondal, Tanush Gupta, Randy Goldberg, Sachin Sule, Department of Internal Medicine, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 10595, United States.
authors.forename: Sachin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sule
authors.affiliation: Srikanth Yandrapalli, Bella Mehta, Pratik Mondal, Tanush Gupta, Randy Goldberg, Sachin Sule, Department of Internal Medicine, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 10595, United States.
authors.forename: Wilbert S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Aronow
keywords: Aortic valve; Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma; Cardiac tumors; Lambl’s excrescences; Sudden cardiac death