Key result
Valve re-replacement and surgical removal successfully treated a 60-year-old woman with a thrombosed mechanical valve and a papillary fibroelastoma of the left ventricular outflow tract.
Population
A 60-year-old woman with a thrombosed mechanical mitral valve presenting with dyspnea on exertion.
Design
Case_report
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May guide individualized surgical decisions in rare concurrent valve thrombosis and LVOT fibroelastoma; leaves open generalizability and optimal strategies.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report describes the successful surgical management of a rare papillary fibroelastoma in the left ventricular outflow tract discovered during re-replacement of a thrombosed mechanical mitral valve.
Taniyasu et al. (2000) conducted a case report in Thrombosed mechanical valve and papillary fibroelastoma (n=1). Valve re-replacement and surgical tumor removal was evaluated on Successful surgical removal. Valve re-replacement and surgical removal successfully treated a 60-year-old woman with a thrombosed mechanical valve and a papillary fibroelastoma of the left ventricular outflow tract.
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