Fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma: a sheep or a wolf?

作者信息

Gazit Avihu Z, Singh Gautam K, Shumway Joseph, Johnson Mark C, Ludomirsky Achiau

机构信息

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.

出版信息

J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2007 Apr;20(4):343-8. doi: 10.1080/14767050601158297.

DOI:10.1080/14767050601158297

PMID:17437243

Abstract

Rhabdomyoma is the most common primary cardiac tumor identified in utero and in infancy. Usually it has a benign course, which has prompted an expectant approach to its management. We report herein the cases of three patients who presented prenatally with cardiac rhabdomyomas. Only one of them had a benign course. The other two patients provided recognizable characteristics of rhabdomyomas with an unfavorable course and demonstrated that fetal rhabdomyomas can have a fatal outcome.

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