title: Rescue surgery for neonate with huge rhabdomyoma and left outflow obstruction.
abstract: We describe a rescue operation in a neonate with a large left ventricular tumor obstructing the left ventricular outflow tract. Surgical resection was performed through an aortotomy and transseptal approach. We excised the main part of the tumor, which was obstructing the outflow tract, leaving a portion that was strongly attached to posterior wall of the left ventricle and mitral valve annulus, which was not feasible to remove. Histological examination showed a rhabdomyoma with benign features. The girl was doing well after 3 months, with no residual tumor growth and no signs of obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany hiroshi.seki@helios-kliniken.de.|Department of Cardiac Surgery, Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Seki
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.|Department of Cardiac Surgery, Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Farhad
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bakhtiary
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.|Department of Cardiac Surgery, Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vollroth
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Friedrich Wilhelm
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Mohr
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.|Department of Cardiac Surgery, Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kostelka
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D047368:Tumor Burden; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Heart neoplasms; Infant; Rhabdomyoma; Ventricular outflow obstruction; newborn