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 ...

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic cardiologists have developed a new catheter-based technique to remove papillary fibroelastomas — the most common type of benign heart tumors — in patients who are ...