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Case Reports
. 1995 Mar;119(3):325-9.
doi: 10.1016/s0002-9394(14)71175-4.

Branch retinal artery occlusion caused by a mitral valve papillary fibroelastoma

R L Zamora  1 , D A Adelberg, A S Berger, P Huettner, H J Kaplan
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Branch retinal artery occlusion caused by a mitral valve papillary fibroelastoma

R L Zamora et al. Am J Ophthalmol. 1995 Mar.

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Abstract

Purpose: We studied clinicopathologically a branch retinal artery occlusion caused by an embolus from a mitral valve papillary fibroelastoma.

Methods: At initial examination the patient, a 37-year-old woman, had visual acuity of 20/400 in her left eye, and eight months later her visual acuity improved to 20/20. The diagnosis required echocardiographic and radiologic studies to localize the lesion.

Results: The mitral valve papillary fibroelastoma was successfully treated with tumor resection involving the mitral valve.

Conclusions: It is important to diagnose intracardiac papillary fibroelastoma, because it can cause recurrent arterial embolization and because it responds favorably to tumor resection.

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