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Pediatric Cardiology
Published in: Pediatric Cardiology 6/2010

01-08-2010 | Case Report

Sudden Death of a Young Child Due to Cardiac Rhabdomyoma

Authors: Anju Gupta, Nidhi Narula, Rajiv Mahajan, Manojkumar Rohit

Published in: Pediatric Cardiology | Issue 6/2010

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Abstract

This report describes a 1½-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.
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Metadata
Title
Sudden Death of a Young Child Due to Cardiac Rhabdomyoma
Authors
Anju Gupta
Nidhi Narula
Rajiv Mahajan
Manojkumar Rohit
Publication date
01-08-2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Pediatric Cardiology / Issue 6/2010
Print ISSN: 0172-0643
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1971
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00246-010-9731-8

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