Cardiac papillary fibroelastomas: report of 2 cases]

We report 2 cases of cardiac papillary fibroelastomas in adults. Case 1: A 61-year-old man was admitted because echocardiography showed a 1 cm pedunculated papillary tumor in the left atrium. In an operation, it was located in the left atrium near the mitral valve and was resected along with a 5 mm margin of endocardium. Case 2: A 60-year-old woman had a 1 cm mobile tumor in the right ventricle near the tricuspid valve located by echocardiography in a preoperative examination of a ventricular septal defect. In an operation, a pedunculated tumor located in the right ventricle was resected. In these 2 cases, histopathology showed the tumor to be a papillary fibroelastoma. Almost all cardiac papillary fibroelastoma are closely related to the cardiac valve, but in these cases, the tumors were located in the left atrium, and the right ventricle, respectively, which is quite rare.