Cardiac fibroma with tumor involvement of the mitral valve: diagnosis by cross-sectional echocardiography.
The clinical, cross-sectional echocardiographic, haemodynamic, and angiographic features of a case of cardiac fibroma in a newborn with unexplained pulmonary hypertension, and direct tumor involvement of the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve, are presented. The role of echocardiography in the pre-operative evaluation of cardiac tumors is discussed.
Kutayli
F
F
Department of Pediatrics, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon.
Malouf
J
J
Slim
M
M
Mufarrij
A
A
Hatem
J
J
D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008943:Mitral Valve