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How do you manage patients with embolic stroke of an undetermined source and a papillary fibroelastoma found on an echocardiogram?
Are there specific mass features that would influence your treatment decision?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
The definitive treatment is surgical, and the only way of knowing for certain that the lesion is a fibroelastoma is to perform surgery and obtain pathology. If a patient is not a candidate for heart surgery, anticoagulation could be tried.
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