Aort Kapağı Fibroelastomu

Abstract

Fibroelastomas are the most common benign cardiac tumors involving the cardiac valves. Although this tumor can be found anywhere in the heart, mostly it is located at the valvular endocardium. Although papillary fibroelastomas are detected coincidentally as an autopsy finding, several advancements and increased availiability in echocardiography enable us to diagnose this entity earlier. Fibroelastomas may result in several clinical conditions especially such as embolization (ischeamic stroke, myocardial infarction). We report a 68-year-old male patient admitted with chest pain and diagnosed by echocardiographic evaluation to have a large mobile mass with a pedicle adhered to the aortic side of right coronary cusp. The tumor was surgically removed to avoid an embolic event and histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis to be a cardiac papillary fibroelastoma, which is the most common benign valvular neoplasm of the heart.