CASE REPORT: Papillary fibroelastoma diagnosed through multimodality cardiac imaging: a rare tumour in an uncommon location with review of literature

Anand, Senthil
Sydow, Nicole
Janardhanan, Rajesh

¹Cardiology, Sarver Heart Centre, Tucson, Arizona, USA,

Correspondence to Dr Rajesh Janardhanan, e-mail; [email protected]

/Accepted July 29, 2017

Contributors SA interpreted data, researched and wrote the manuscript. NS contributed to the pathological specimens and intellectual content. RJ revised and contributed critically important intellectual content. All authors contributed substantially to the work. All authors discussed and commented on the manuscript at all stages.

Competing interests None declared.

Patient consent Obtained.

Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

BMJ Case Reports 2017:p 219327, January 2017. | DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2017-219327

We describe the case of a woman presenting with transient ischaemic attack, who was found to have a papillary fibroelastoma arising from the aortic wall, an extremely rare location. We describe the multimodality imaging techniques used in diagnosing this patient and review the most recent literature on evaluation and management of patients with cardiac papillary fibroelastomas.