title: [Tardive pseudo-ischemic presentation of cardiac rhabdomyoma].
abstract: Rhabdomyoma (RBD) is the commonest cardiac tumour in early childhood. This tumour, which is asymptomatic in most patients, is often associated with tuberous sclerosis, a multisystem disease that involves mainly the central nervous system. RBD, which is generally considered a hamartoma rather than true tumour, often regresses spontaneously by age of 2. We present the case of a 19 year-old male affected with an RBD diagnosed through transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, and characterized by late cardiac manifestations, including intermittent left bundle branch block and a pseudo-ischemic electrocardiographic pattern. These findings may depend on the anterobasal septal localization of the RBD.
authors.affiliation: Servizio di Cardiologia, Ospedale di Subiaco, Roma.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Matteucci
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Busi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Biferali
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Paventi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002037:Bundle-Branch Block; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology