Background: A 75-year-old male with a history of myocardial infarction and recent transient ischemic attack was referred to a cardiology clinic for preoperative evaluation before a cystectomy.

Papillary fibroelastoma is the third most common primary tumor of the heart and is most likely to involve the cardiac valves. Like myxomas, they arise from the endocardium in most patients and since ...

Doctors at a Shreveport hospital performed, what they believe to be the world's first non-surgical removal of a fibroelastoma that was attached to the aortic valve. A fibroelastoma is a non-malignant ...