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Heart 1998;79:301-304 doi:10.1136/hrt.79.3.301
  • Case study

Fibroelastoma: case report and review of the literature

  1. A Al-Mohammada,
  2. H Pambakianb,
  3. C Youngc
  1. aCardiac Department, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK, bDepartment of Histopathology, St Thomas’s Hospital, London, UK, cDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Thomas’s Hospital
  1. Dr Al-Mohammad.
  • Accepted 18 August 1997

Abstract

A 64 year old woman presented with right hemianaesthesia and was found to have a pansystolic apical murmur with systolic and diastolic posture related plops. Echocardiography revealed a mobile mass on the mitral valve apparatus that was confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging. This was successfully excised and was proven on histopathological examination to be a fibroelastoma. Other cases of fibroelastoma from the literature are reviewed.

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