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Left Ventricular Rhabdomyoma With Severe Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction
Author(s) -
Sarigul Ali,
Özkara Ahmet,
Narin Cüneyt,
Çimen Derya,
Sarkular Gamze,
Şahsıvar Orkun,
Toy Hatice
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00437.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , ventricular outflow tract obstruction , ventricular outflow tract , rhabdomyoma , outflow , radiology , hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , physics , tuberous sclerosis , meteorology
Abstract The incidence of cardiac tumors increased with the improvement of imaging techniques in infants. Rhabdomyomas are the most common tumors in this group of patients. We herein report a 40‐day‐old male patient with left ventricular rhabdomyoma. The tumor caused syncope attack and supraventricular tachycardia. An emergency operation was planned and the life‐threatening lesion was excised via left ventriculotomy. The patient was extubated on postoperative sixth hour and discharged from hospital on the sixth day of the postoperative period without any problem. This successful operation encourages us not to hesitate to perform an operation in newborns with cardiac neoplasms causing hemodynamic instability.