Sudden death of a young child due to cardiac rhabdomyoma.
This report describes a 1(1/2)-year-old boy who succumbed to acute obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract by a cardiac rhabdomyoma. He was admitted to have a transient loss of consciousness episode evaluated. A mobile intracardiac mass obstructing the left ventricular outflow tract and protruding into the aortic root during systole was detected by transthoracic echocardiography. At autopsy, it was confirmed to be a rhabdomyoma.
Gupta
Anju
A
Department of Pediatrics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Narula
Nidhi
N
Mahajan
Rajiv
R
Rohit
Manojkumar
M
D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis