Primary cardiac tumors of the mitral valve are extremely rare; however. the
y present a major risk of embolization. Therefore, prompt diagnosis and urg
ent treatment is obligatory. The authors report the case of a 60-year-old m
an with a huge mitral valve mass and its vascularity, which was diagnosed b
y transthoracic echocardiography and selective coronary arteriography. Our
patient's mitral valve tumor had a size of 5.9 X 2.9 cm, which was the larg
est size reported up to this time in this location. The patient died from a
major cerebrovascular event before surgical excision could be performed.