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A Case of Fibroelastoma with Widespread Embolism to the Brain, Kidney, and Spleen

Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma (CPF) is the second most common primary cardiac tumor, which is diagnosed incidentally or with embolic phenomena, mostly in the form of a transient ischemic attack (TIA) and stroke. We present a case of a 58-year-old female who presented with fatigue and low-grade fev...

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Autores principales: Iqbal, Iqra, Ullah, Waqas, Khan, Muhammad Atique Alam, Haq, Shujaul, Cheema, Muhammad Arslan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6679706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404349
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4798
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author Iqbal, Iqra
Ullah, Waqas
Khan, Muhammad Atique Alam
Haq, Shujaul
Cheema, Muhammad Arslan
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Ullah, Waqas
Khan, Muhammad Atique Alam
Haq, Shujaul
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description Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma (CPF) is the second most common primary cardiac tumor, which is diagnosed incidentally or with embolic phenomena, mostly in the form of a transient ischemic attack (TIA) and stroke. We present a case of a 58-year-old female who presented with fatigue and low-grade fever and was found to have multiple systemic infarcts. Her blood cultures and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) were negative, ruling out infective endocarditis. However, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) revealed a mobile mass at the aortic valve. The mass was surgically removed, and the aortic valve was repaired. The histological examination of the mass finally revealed a papillary fibroelastoma. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case where fibroelastoma presented with splenic and renal infarcts in combination with the cerebral infarcts. Since cardiac fibroelastoma can cause embolization to the cerebral, splenic, and renal vessels, we, therefore, advocate that it should be considered as one of the possible causes of widespread embolism. We also stress upon the importance of doing TEE in case of a suspected cardiac mass, as the TTE is more likely to give false-negative results.
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spelling pubmed-66797062019-08-09 A Case of Fibroelastoma with Widespread Embolism to the Brain, Kidney, and Spleen Iqbal, Iqra Ullah, Waqas Khan, Muhammad Atique Alam Haq, Shujaul Cheema, Muhammad Arslan Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma (CPF) is the second most common primary cardiac tumor, which is diagnosed incidentally or with embolic phenomena, mostly in the form of a transient ischemic attack (TIA) and stroke. We present a case of a 58-year-old female who presented with fatigue and low-grade fever and was found to have multiple systemic infarcts. Her blood cultures and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) were negative, ruling out infective endocarditis. However, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) revealed a mobile mass at the aortic valve. The mass was surgically removed, and the aortic valve was repaired. The histological examination of the mass finally revealed a papillary fibroelastoma. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case where fibroelastoma presented with splenic and renal infarcts in combination with the cerebral infarcts. Since cardiac fibroelastoma can cause embolization to the cerebral, splenic, and renal vessels, we, therefore, advocate that it should be considered as one of the possible causes of widespread embolism. We also stress upon the importance of doing TEE in case of a suspected cardiac mass, as the TTE is more likely to give false-negative results. Cureus 2019-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6679706/ /pubmed/31404349 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4798 Text en Copyright © 2019, Iqbal et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Iqbal, Iqra
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Khan, Muhammad Atique Alam
Haq, Shujaul
Cheema, Muhammad Arslan
A Case of Fibroelastoma with Widespread Embolism to the Brain, Kidney, and Spleen
title A Case of Fibroelastoma with Widespread Embolism to the Brain, Kidney, and Spleen
title_full A Case of Fibroelastoma with Widespread Embolism to the Brain, Kidney, and Spleen
title_fullStr A Case of Fibroelastoma with Widespread Embolism to the Brain, Kidney, and Spleen
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Fibroelastoma with Widespread Embolism to the Brain, Kidney, and Spleen
title_short A Case of Fibroelastoma with Widespread Embolism to the Brain, Kidney, and Spleen
title_sort case of fibroelastoma with widespread embolism to the brain, kidney, and spleen
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6679706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404349
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4798
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