Cardiac rhabdomyoma surgically treated with success. Review of literature

• Published in: Archivos de cardiología de México Vol. 75 Suppl 3; pp. S3 - 113-7
• Main Authors: Cigarroa López, José Angel, García Jiménez, Yoloxóchitl, Yáñez Gutiérrez, Lucelly, Jiménez Arteaga, Santiago, Martínez Sánchez, Arturo, Ortegón Cardeña, José, Gómez, Felipe David, Sánchez Soberanes, Agustín, López Gallegos, Diana, Riera-Kinkel, Carlos, Alva Espinosa, Carlos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Mexico 01.07.2005
• Subjects: Heart Neoplasms - surgery; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Male; Remission Induction; Rhabdomyoma - surgery
• ISSN: 1405-9940

The primary cardiac tumors are inusual, the incidence varies in all the ages between 0.005 to 0.05%. In pediatrics patients the incidence is 0.27%. The more frequent tumors during the childhood are the cardiac rhabdomyomas. These tumors are considered benigns. The clinical expression is wide, in the most the cases, the patients are asymptomatic and are detected by murmurs. In the prenatal age are manifested by arrhythmias or hydrops fetalis. The neonates and children may be show cardiac arrhythmias, low cardiac index and sudden cardiac death. The association with tuberous sclerosis had been reported in 81%. We present a neonate with cardiac rhabdomyoma diagnosed in the newborn period when he was asymptomatic, however in the follow-up he developed cardiac failure by obstruction in the out flow tract of the right ventricle. He underwent open cardiac surgery to resect the obstruction. Five months after surgery, the patient remain asymptomatic.