How do you manage patients with embolic stroke of an undetermined source and a papillary fibroelastoma found on an echocardiogram?
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Neurology · Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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.