Fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma: a sheep or a wolf?
Rhabdomyoma is the most common primary cardiac tumor identified in utero and in infancy. Usually it has a benign course, which has prompted an expectant approach to its management. We report herein the cases of three patients who presented prenatally with cardiac rhabdomyomas. Only one of them had a benign course. The other two patients provided recognizable characteristics of rhabdomyomas with an unfavorable course and demonstrated that fetal rhabdomyomas can have a fatal outcome.
Gazit
Avihu Z
AZ
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
Singh
Gautam K
GK
Shumway
Joseph
J
Johnson
Mark C
MC
Ludomirsky
Achiau
A
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000196:embryology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000196:embryology / Q000473:pathology; D014463:Ultrasonography