In this month's Case Study, De Visser and colleagues present a 75-year-old male patient with a recent history of transient ischemic attack who underwent routine cardiological evaluation before a cystectomy. He was found to have coronary artery disease and an aortic valve papillary fibroelastoma—a rare, benign cardiac tumor. Multislice CT was successfully used to visualize the tumor and coronary arteries, before the patient underwent surgical excision of the tumor and an end-to-side anastomosis of the left internal mammary artery and the left anterior descending coronary artery.
- Randall N de Visser
- Carlos van Mieghem
- Tjebbe W Galema
