Thrombus or tumor? a case of fibroelastoma as indicated during the submission process

We describe the case of a 50-year-old woman who was admitted to a pheriferal department for heart failure. The echocardiography revealed a small mass measuring about 1.3 × 1.0 cm adhering to the non-coronary cusp of the aortic valve, mild dilated cardiomiopathy and severe biventricular dysfunction....

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Autores principales: Vizzardi, Enrico, Faggiano, Pompilio, Antonioli, Elena, Zanini, Gregoriana, Chiari, Ermanna, Nodari, Savina, Cas, Livio Dei
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19133150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-31
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author Vizzardi, Enrico
Faggiano, Pompilio
Antonioli, Elena
Zanini, Gregoriana
Chiari, Ermanna
Nodari, Savina
Cas, Livio Dei
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Faggiano, Pompilio
Antonioli, Elena
Zanini, Gregoriana
Chiari, Ermanna
Nodari, Savina
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description We describe the case of a 50-year-old woman who was admitted to a pheriferal department for heart failure. The echocardiography revealed a small mass measuring about 1.3 × 1.0 cm adhering to the non-coronary cusp of the aortic valve, mild dilated cardiomiopathy and severe biventricular dysfunction. This mass had erroneously been considered a thrombotic lesion, so the patient was treated with thrombolysis and heparin e.v. Only after a transoesophageal echocardiography a tumour cardiac mass was suspected. The diagnosis of fibroelastoma was confirmed by MRI and then from the anatomic and histoligical definition after surgery.
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spelling pubmed-26479112009-02-26 Thrombus or tumor? a case of fibroelastoma as indicated during the submission process Vizzardi, Enrico Faggiano, Pompilio Antonioli, Elena Zanini, Gregoriana Chiari, Ermanna Nodari, Savina Cas, Livio Dei Cases J Case Report We describe the case of a 50-year-old woman who was admitted to a pheriferal department for heart failure. The echocardiography revealed a small mass measuring about 1.3 × 1.0 cm adhering to the non-coronary cusp of the aortic valve, mild dilated cardiomiopathy and severe biventricular dysfunction. This mass had erroneously been considered a thrombotic lesion, so the patient was treated with thrombolysis and heparin e.v. Only after a transoesophageal echocardiography a tumour cardiac mass was suspected. The diagnosis of fibroelastoma was confirmed by MRI and then from the anatomic and histoligical definition after surgery. BioMed Central 2009-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2647911/ /pubmed/19133150 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-31 Text en Copyright ©2009 Vizzardi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Vizzardi, Enrico
Faggiano, Pompilio
Antonioli, Elena
Zanini, Gregoriana
Chiari, Ermanna
Nodari, Savina
Cas, Livio Dei
Thrombus or tumor? a case of fibroelastoma as indicated during the submission process
title Thrombus or tumor? a case of fibroelastoma as indicated during the submission process
title_full Thrombus or tumor? a case of fibroelastoma as indicated during the submission process
title_fullStr Thrombus or tumor? a case of fibroelastoma as indicated during the submission process
title_full_unstemmed Thrombus or tumor? a case of fibroelastoma as indicated during the submission process
title_short Thrombus or tumor? a case of fibroelastoma as indicated during the submission process
title_sort thrombus or tumor? a case of fibroelastoma as indicated during the submission process
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19133150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-31
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