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 ...

A 28-year-old man with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) was admitted to the cardiac surgery department for a resection of a single tumor with papillary fibroelastoma morphology in the aortic leaflet, ...