Aortic valve fibroelastoma presenting with anginal symptoms in a patient with hypothyroidism

Multiple papillary fibroelastomas of the aortic valve: Case report

“…Generally, patients with papillary fibroelastomas are asymptomatic, and the tumors are incidental findings on echocardiography [2,3]. However, their recognition and diagnosis is important because the tumor may cause life-threatening complications such as systemic embolism, sudden death, and myocardial ischemia secondary to coronary artery embolism or due to tumor prolapse into the coronary artery [2][3][4]. The incidence of these complications is high when the tumor location is left-sided and highly mobile [2].…”

Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma manifested as a left ventricular cystic mass

“…The typical pathologic findings of CPF are a frond-like appearance macroscopically, especially when placed in saline [5,8,9], and avascular papilloma with a single layer of endothelial cells surrounding the papillary surface [6,7,8,9,10,11], microscopically.…”