Diagnosis of cardiac papillary fibroelastoma presenting with acute coronary syndrome and concomitant Salmonella bacteraemia, mimicking aortic endocarditis
Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas (PFE) are rare cardiac tumours that are generally benign.Their first clinical manifestation is often associated with embolic events, also leading to acute coronary syndrome.In patients with embolic events with no obvious evidence of embolic causes, transoesophageal echocardiogram should be performed to look for PFE.
Authors
- Luigi Sciarra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9669-1330)
- Marzia Colopi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1527-850X)
- L. Zezza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8241-8421)
- Alessandro Guido
- Miriam Albanese
- Salvatore Nicolardi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5458-2523)
- Gabriele De Masi De Luca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0419-196X)
Institutions
- University of L'Aquila (IT)
- Ospedale Vito Fazzi (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2025-02-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.12890/2025_005215
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac tumors and thrombi
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00