Published in:
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
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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.