title: Left ventricular rhabdomyoma with severe left ventricular outflow tract obstruction: development of delayed hemiplegia after cardiopulmonary bypass.
abstract: The incidence of cardiac tumors increased with the improvement of imaging techniques in infants. Rhabdomyomas are the most common tumors in this group of patients. We herein report a 40-day-old male patient with left ventricular rhabdomyoma. The tumor caused syncope attack and supraventricular tachycardia. An emergency operation was planned and the life-threatening lesion was excised via left ventriculotomy. The patient was extubated on postoperative sixth hour and discharged from hospital on the sixth day of the postoperative period without any problem. This successful operation encourages us not to hesitate to perform an operation in newborns with cardiac neoplasms causing hemodynamic instability.
authors.affiliation: Selcuk University, Meram School of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Konya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarigul
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ozkara
authors.forename: Cüneyt
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Narin
authors.forename: Derya
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cimen
authors.forename: Gamze
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sarkular
authors.forename: Orkun
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sahsivar
authors.forename: Hatice
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Toy
mesh_terms: D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000150:complications*; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000209:etiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*