A Calcified Amorphous Tumor Originating in the Sinus of Valsalva

Yusuke Watanabe; Toru Naganuma; Tatsuya Nakao; Sunao Nakamura

doi:10.1111/echo.13161

A Calcified Amorphous Tumor Originating in the Sinus of Valsalva

Echocardiography. 2016 May;33(5):796-798. doi: 10.1111/echo.13161.

Authors

Yusuke Watanabe¹, Toru Naganuma¹, Tatsuya Nakao², Sunao Nakamura¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, New Tokyo Hospital, Chiba, Japan.
² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, New Tokyo Hospital, Chiba, Japan.

PMID: 27145968
DOI: 10.1111/echo.13161

Abstract

An 81-year-old male with end-stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis was admitted to our hospital for congestive heart failure secondary to severe aortic stenosis. Transesophageal echocardiography revealed a 15.3 × 9.9 mm calcified mass in the sinus of Valsalva. The tumor was diagnosed as a calcified amorphous tumor (CAT) by histologic examination. This is the first report of a CAT that originated in the sinus of Valsalva.

Keywords: calcified amorphous tumor; cardiac tumor; sinus of Valsalva.

Publication types

Case Reports