Large right ventricular fibroma in a 6-month-old infant

Pediatr Cardiol. 2012 Dec;33(8):1458-60. doi: 10.1007/s00246-012-0390-9. Epub 2012 May 29.

Abstract

This report describes the case of a 6-month-old girl with a large cardiac fibroma in the right ventricle. Ventricular tachycardia associated with the fibroma was successfully treated with amiodarone. At the age of 3 years, surgical resection was indicated because of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction caused by progression of the tumor. The fibroma was successfully resected, and further follow-up evaluation was uneventful.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amiodarone / therapeutic use*
  • Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Fibroma / complications
  • Fibroma / pathology
  • Fibroma / surgery*
  • Heart Neoplasms / complications
  • Heart Neoplasms / pathology
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Heart Ventricles / pathology*
  • Heart Ventricles / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / drug therapy*
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / etiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
  • Amiodarone