title: Spontaneous regression of cardiac rhabdomyoma in tuberous sclerosis.
abstract: Life-threatening cardiac rhabdomyoma in a newborn infant regressed spontaneously within a 5 month period. Since cardiac surgery for rhabdomyoma is dangerous in infancy, medical management should be considered if symptomatology is not severe. When a fetal arrhythmia is diagnosed, antenatal ultrasound examination for presence of cardiac tumors is warranted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Alkalay
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Ferry
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Fink
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Pomerance
mesh_terms: D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D014402:Tuberous Sclerosis / Q000150:complications*; D014463:Ultrasonography