1. Cardiac fibroma with cardiac arrest: a rare clinical presentation of Gorlin syndrome in an 8-month-old infant
- Author
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James Loker, Mohammad Baidoun, and Mohamed Elgendy
- Subjects
0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Heart Ventricles ,Connective tissue ,Nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome ,Case Report ,Fibroma ,030105 genetics & heredity ,Heart Neoplasms ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cardiac fibroma ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Family history ,Child ,business.industry ,Infant ,Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome ,General Medicine ,Emergency department ,medicine.disease ,Heart Arrest ,stomatognathic diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Ventricle ,Cardiology ,Female ,Presentation (obstetrics) ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Paediatric cardiac tumours are rare, often benign and carry associations with genetic conditions. Cardiac fibromas are mainly composed of fibroblast and connective tissue . They can lead to symptoms due to obstruction of blood flow or arrythmias. In this case, we report an 8-month-old girl child who presented to paediatric cardiology office for cardiac evaluation given a family history of Gorlin syndrome, also known as nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, found to have a large 4×4×6 cm fibroma in the apical lateral free wall of the left ventricle and later presented to the emergency department with cardiac arrest.
- Published
- 2023