Detection of multiple papillary fibroelastomas of the tricuspid valve by transesophageal echocardiography

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1994 May-Jun;7(3 Pt 1):315-7. doi: 10.1016/s0894-7317(14)80403-3.

Abstract

A 66-year-old man without symptoms, referred for the treatment of moderate hypertension, was found to have a right atrial mass by two-dimensional echocardiography. On transesophageal echocardiography two masses were detected on the tricuspid valve, the first one on the posterior leaflet and the second smaller one on the anterior leaflet. These findings were confirmed at surgery. Histologic analysis revealed that the masses represented papillary fibroelastomas.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Echocardiography
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal*
  • Fibroma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Fibroma / pathology
  • Fibroma / surgery
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Papillary Muscles / diagnostic imaging*
  • Papillary Muscles / pathology
  • Papillary Muscles / surgery
  • Tricuspid Valve / diagnostic imaging*
  • Tricuspid Valve / pathology
  • Tricuspid Valve / surgery