title: Sonographic diagnosis of fetal cardiac rhabdomyomas in two successive pregnancies in a woman with tuberous sclerosis.
abstract: Rhabdomyoma is the most common prenatally diagnosed cardiac tumor. We present two cases of fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma. In each case, fetal ultrasound assessment revealed the intracardiac tumors that were confirmed on postnatal imaging. The mother and her previous child were examined for the markers of tuberous sclerosis and diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis was confirmed. Two years later, cardiac rhabdomyomas were again diagnosed in her subsequent pregnancy. In the postpartum period, total regression of the tumors occurred in both cases.
authors.affiliation: Kocaeli University, School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kocaeli, Turkey.
authors.forename: Semih
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozeren
authors.forename: Yigit
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cakiroglu
authors.forename: Emek
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Doger
authors.forename: Eray
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Caliskan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000150:complications*; D014402:Tuberous Sclerosis / Q000150:complications*; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult