title: Cardiac rhabdomyoma in an adult patient presenting with ventricular arrhythmia.
abstract: Cardiac rhabdomyomas are extremely uncommon in the adult patient. We describe a previously healthy man who presented with ventricular arrhythmias resulting from a right ventricular, cardiac rhabdomyoma. Echocardiography, CT scanning, and MRI are recognized as useful diagnostic modalities for intracardiac lesions. Cardiac catheterization in our patient demonstrated the presence of a tumor blush. This has not previously been reported with cardiac rhabdomyomas. Although lesions may spontaneously regress, surgery is often necessary and frequently resolves the underlying arrhythmia.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Krasuski
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Hesselson
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Landolfo
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Ellington
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Bashore
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed