Rhabdomyoma association with atrioventricular septal defect in an infant: a rare coincidence

Cardiac rhabdomyoma is the most common primary heart tumor in childhood. This tumor, which is frequently associated with tuberous sclerosis complex, mostly disappears in childhood with spontaneous regression. Surgical resection is required in case of outflow obstruction and arrhythmia and when protruding to disrupt the filling of the heart cavities. There are very few case series in the literature about rhabdomyoma, whose relationship with other congenital heart defects has not been clearly verified. In this study, we report our approach to the tumor during the corrective surgery of the infant, who was diagnosed with an atrioventricular septal defect and patent ductus arteriosus, and rhabdomyoma accompanying these malformations. We treated this asymptomatic rhabdomyoma with everolimus in line with the current literature, without excision.