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Cryptogenic stroke workup reveals cardiac papillary fibroelastoma of the right coronary cusp.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights cardiac papillary fibroelastoma as a potential etiology to consider during the investigation of cryptogenic stroke.
Cardiac fibroelastoma merits consideration in cryptogenic stroke workup; single case leaves association unproven.
Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma (CPF) is a pathologically benign cardiac tumor. This tumor usually arises from cardiac valves, and it is the most common cardiac valvular tumor. This usually single and pedunculated tumor should be surgically treated when the mass is mobile and the patient has experienced a prior stroke, even if the stroke has manifested as a transient ischemic attack. Surgical treatment is definitive, and no recurrences have been reported in the literature. We describe a patient who had a diagnosis of CPF while undergoing investigation for a cryptogenic stroke.
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Demïrtürk et al. (2010) conducted a case report in Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma (n=1). Surgical treatment was evaluated. A patient was diagnosed with a cardiac papillary fibroelastoma of the right coronary cusp during an investigation for a cryptogenic stroke.