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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Rep 2024; 13(01): e23-e24
DOI: 10.1055/s-0044-1787873
Case Report: Cardiac

Recurrent Syncope and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Due to a Papillary Fibroelastoma

Teresa Escherich
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Passau, Passau, Germany
,
Markus Czesla
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Passau, Passau, Germany
,
Parwis Massoudy 
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Passau, Passau, Germany
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Abstract

Symptoms of papillary fibroelastomas are often related to thromboembolic events but are rarely caused by a mechanical impairment of blood supply by the tumor itself. We describe a case of a papillary fibroelastoma in a 91-year-old female patient leading to a cardiac arrest through intermittent occlusion of the left coronary artery.

Keywords

tumor - histology - cardiac - aortic valve & root - heart disease


Publication History

Received: 25 March 2024

Accepted: 11 April 2024

Article published online:
03 July 2024

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