Open AccessIntracardiac teratoma in a newborn
Author(s) -
Farooki Z. Q.,
Chang C. H.,
Jackson W. L.,
Clapp S. K.,
Hakimi M.,
Arciniegas E.,
Pinsky W. W.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960110910
Subject(s) - medicine , intracardiac injection , asymptomatic , ductus arteriosus , ventricle , teratoma , immature teratoma , surgery , pathological , cardiology , radiology , germ cell tumors , chemotherapy
Primary tumors of the heart are infrequent at all ages. We present a newborn with hypoxia and a heart murmur, in whom an echocardiogram revealed a large tumor filling the right ventricle and the pulmonary annulus. To maintain pulmonary blood flow, the patency of the ductus arteriosus was achieved by infusion of prostaglandin E1. Successful surgical resection was accomplished. The pathological examination was characteristic of a benign teratoma. The patient remains asymptomatic and has shown no evidence of recurrence of the tumor during a follow‐up period of 34 months. This represents the eleventh case of intracardiac teratoma and only the fourth case to undergo successful surgical resection.