Successful resection of a primary cardiac fibroma in a neonate: report of a case

During the fetal-neonatal period, a primary cardiac tumor may be completely asymptomatic and such tumors may be incidentally discovered by echocardiography. A four-hour-old male was diagnosed to have a cardiac tumor by post-natal echocardiography and was observed closely. Surgery was indicated immed...

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Published inSurgery today (Tokyo, Japan) Vol. 44; no. 9; pp. 1768 - 1770
Main Authors Yan, Xian-Gang, Jia, Bing, Zhu, Bing-Xue, Hu, Xi-Hong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tokyo Springer Japan 01.09.2014
Subjects
Case Report
Echocardiography
Fibroma - congenital
Fibroma - diagnosis
Fibroma - surgery
Heart Neoplasms - congenital
Heart Neoplasms - diagnosis
Heart Neoplasms - surgery
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Surgery
Surgical Oncology
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction - etiology
Cardiac tumor
Neonate
Fibromas
Surgery
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Summary:During the fetal-neonatal period, a primary cardiac tumor may be completely asymptomatic and such tumors may be incidentally discovered by echocardiography. A four-hour-old male was diagnosed to have a cardiac tumor by post-natal echocardiography and was observed closely. Surgery was indicated immediately at the 3 week follow-up examination when the tumor was found to have obstructed the right ventricle outflow. The tumor was resected successfully and its histopathology indicated that it was a fibroma. Follow-up echocardiograms and magnetic resonance imaging 5 months postoperatively demonstrated no evidence of any remaining tumor and his RV function was good.
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ISSN:0941-1291
1436-2813
DOI:10.1007/s00595-013-0614-5