title: Sudden death of a young child due to cardiac rhabdomyoma.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Anju
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Nidhi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Narula
authors.forename: Rajiv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.forename: Manojkumar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rohit
mesh_terms: 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