title: Symptomatic Fetal-Type Cardiac Rhabdomyoma.
abstract: Rhabdomyomas are the most common primary cardiac tumors, especially seen during early periods of childhood. Fetaltype rhabdomyoma is a benign tumor described almost always in extracardiac locations. Although the natural history of the cardiac rhabdomyoma is to regress, the behaviour of the fetal-type rhabdomyomas when present in the heart is unknown with respect to its infrequency. Herein, we report a hemodynamically unstable female neonate with a single large intra-cardiac mass unresponsive to medical treatment, who underwent surgery. The neonate could not survive the operation due to ventricular fibrillation. The mass was diagnosed as fetal-type cardiac rhabdomyoma on autopsy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Research and Training Hospital, Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Seyma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kayali
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Research and Training Hospital, Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Vehbi
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dogan
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Research and Training Hospital, Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nilüfer
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Arda
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology Surgery, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Research and Training Hospital, Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koç
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Research and Training Hospital, Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ilker
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ertugrul
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Research and Training Hospital, Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Senem
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Özgür
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Research and Training Hospital, Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Utku Arman
authors.initials: UA
authors.lastname: Örün
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Research and Training Hospital, Pediatric Cardiology, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Selmin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Karademir
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*