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We describe a case of a woman in her 70s who presented with acute chest pain and ST-segment elevation on ECG. Multimodality cardiac imaging confirmed Takotsubo cardiomyopathy alongside a pedunculated ...

A BRIT who dreamt of moving to Australia for years has had his dreams destroyed after suffering a stroke at 30 in a “cruel” twist of fate. Liam Rudd and his girlfriend, Stella Slinger Thompson, 28, ...

A Brit who spent his whole life dreaming of moving to Australia is being forced to return home after suffering a major stroke - just a day before starting his new job. Liam Rudd and his girlfriend, ...

Papillary fibroelastoma is the rarest of the primary benign cardiac tumors, with the one located in the pulmonary valve being the rarest, even after the one that affects the ventricular endocardium.

Benign cardiac tumours are infrequent in clinical practice and, of these, cardiac myxoma is the one with the highest incidence. Given that a left intraventricular presentation is rare, other ...

A 47-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a new-onset right-sided weakness and slurred speech 2 hours after awakening. The patient’s past medical history was significant for an ...

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, ...

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 ...

A 59-year-old man with no cardiovascular risk factors and history of right cryptogenic palmar digital artery thrombosis diagnosed one year previously was admitted to the emergency department with ...

Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma is a benign neoplasm that arises in the endocardium. It commonly presents as an incidental finding on transthoracic echocardiography or as emboli to the coronary, ...

The 67-year-old woman had just flown back to her old hometown, Eugene, Ore., to pick up one more load of boxes to move them to her new hometown, Homer, Alaska. As usual, the shuttle to long-term ...