1. Unusual Outcome of a Right Ventricular Rhabdomyoma in an Infant
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Flore Tabareau-Delalande, Bruno Lefort, Julie Lothion, Alain Chantepie, Jean-Marc El Arid, Paul Neville, and Alaeddin Nassimi
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Heart Ventricles ,Ventricular Outflow Obstruction ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Rhabdomyoma ,Ultrasonography, Prenatal ,Heart Neoplasms ,03 medical and health sciences ,Tuberous sclerosis ,Heart neoplasms ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Right ventricle outflow tract ,Cardiac Tumors ,Unusual case ,business.industry ,Disease progression ,Infant ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Treatment Outcome ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Disease Progression ,cardiovascular system ,Cardiology ,Surgery ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Rhabdomyomas are the most common benign cardiac tumors. They may often be associated with tuberous sclerosis. In many cases, cardiac rhabdomyomas undergo spontaneous regression. Here, we report the unusual case of an infant with a large nonobstructive right ventricular rhabdomyoma at birth and at four months of age, which subsequently caused severe right ventricle outflow tract obstruction at six months of age, prompting surgery to remove the tumor. Close monitoring should be done in infants with large nonobstructive cardiac rhabdomyomas.
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- 2016
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