Rupture of a caseous calcified amorphous tumour on mitral annular calcification: serial transoesophageal echocardiographic documentation
Haruka Harata, Takeshi Maruo, Tatsuhiko Komiya, Mitsuru Abe, Roman Komorovsky, Nelya Oryshchyn, Erick Alexanderson Rosas · 2026
Read Rupture of a caseous calcified amorphous tumour on mitral annular calcification: serial transoesophageal echocardiographic documentation by Haruka Harata, Takeshi Maruo, Tatsuhiko Komiya, Mitsuru Abe, Roman Komorovsky, Nelya Oryshchyn, Erick Alexanderson Rosas (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13327105.txt.
Description
Haruka Harata and colleagues report a 2026 heart case tracked with repeated ultrasound scans from inside the food pipe. A 79-year-old woman with an irregular heartbeat arrived after a brief loss of memory. Brain scans showed several small strokes on both sides despite blood-thinning medicine, so doctors looked for a heart source.
Imaging found a round, mobile mass measuring 11.8 by 8.3 mm sitting on heavy calcium at the mitral valve, with a pale core and a bright thin shell. During surgery the mass flattened, and lab study of the removed tissue confirmed a calcified amorphous tumor with a soft, caseous form. Her memory problem cleared and no new clots appeared over one year, favoring early surgery once such a mass is spotted.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Haruka Harata, Takeshi Maruo, Tatsuhiko Komiya, Mitsuru Abe, Roman Komorovsky, Nelya Oryshchyn, Erick Alexanderson Rosas |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 5062 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |