Could papillary fibroelastoma in the tricuspid valve cause thrombocytopenia?

Mehmet Işık

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2024.25719

Mehmet Işık¹, Sıddıka Fındık², Sefa Tatar³, Şükrü Kara¹, Niyazi Görmüş¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Türkiye
²Department of Pathology, Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Türkiye
³Department of Cardiology, Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Türkiye

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2024.25719

Cardiac myxoma and papillary fibroelastoma are the most common benign primary cardiac tumors in adults. In this brief report, we described a male patient with a mass in the tricuspid valve (papillary fibroelastoma as a result of pathology), who presented with thrombocytopenia and underwent tricuspid valve replacement. The patient was followed and treated by the hematology clinic due to thrombocytopenia, but a definitive diagnosis could not be made. The patient was incidentally diagnosed while being investigated for urinary stones. Thrombocytopenia improved in the postoperative follow-up. The successful surgical procedure, along with echocardiography and pathology images of the patient, was shared.

Keywords : Papillary fibroelastoma, thrombocytopenia, tricuspid valve replacement

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