A rare association between mitral valve fibroelastoma and myxomatous disease with severe mitral regurgitation

Roxana Cristina Sisu; Guido Lanzillo; Diana Crina Benea; Gheorghe Cerin; Dragos Vinereanu

doi:10.1002/jcu.20758

A rare association between mitral valve fibroelastoma and myxomatous disease with severe mitral regurgitation

J Clin Ultrasound. 2011 Mar-Apr;39(3):179-81. doi: 10.1002/jcu.20758. Epub 2010 Oct 27.

Authors

Roxana Cristina Sisu¹, Guido Lanzillo, Diana Crina Benea, Gheorghe Cerin, Dragos Vinereanu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiology, University and Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania.

PMID: 21387331
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20758

Abstract

We report a rare case of association between mitral valve fibroelastoma and myxomatous disease in a patient with long history of asymptomatic myxomatous disease and progressive severe mitral regurgitation. The tumor was an intraoperative transesophageal echocardiographic finding and was confirmed during surgery. The differential diagnosis of the echocardiographic image was infective endocarditis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography, Transesophageal*
Fibroma / complications
Fibroma / diagnostic imaging*
Fibroma / surgery
Heart Neoplasms / complications
Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Neoplasms / surgery
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mitral Valve / diagnostic imaging
Mitral Valve / surgery
Mitral Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging
Mitral Valve Insufficiency / etiology*
Mitral Valve Insufficiency / surgery
Myxoma / complications
Myxoma / diagnostic imaging*
Myxoma / surgery
Treatment Outcome