Obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract caused by a tuberculoma in a patient with ventricular septal defect and aneurysm of the membranous septum.
Reported here is an obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract caused by a tuberculoma in a 15-year-old boy who presented with a ventricular septal defect. The obstruction was discovered at surgery and the tuberculous aetiology was only demonstrated histologically. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of a tuberculoma of the heart associated with congenital heart disease.
Santos
C L
CL
Heart Institute of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Moraes
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Moraes
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D000293:Adolescent; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014375:Tuberculoma / Q000150:complications*; D014381:Tuberculosis, Cardiovascular / Q000150:complications*; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*