Left ventricular outflow obstruction produced by a pedunculated fibroma in a newborn: clinical, angiographic, echocardiographic and surgical observations

Chest. 1978 Nov;74(5):590-3. doi: 10.1378/chest.74.5.590.

Abstract

An unusual case of a one-day-old infant with significant left ventricular outflow obstruction produced by a pedunculated fibroma is described. The clinical findings were indistinguishable from severe valvular or subvalvular aortic stenosis. The tumor was difficult to detect by echocardiography. It produced an echo-free widening of the left ventricular outflow tract. Left ventricular cineangiography clearly demonstrated a mobile mass beneath the aortic valve.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aortic Valve Stenosis / diagnosis*
  • Aortic Valve Stenosis / etiology
  • Cineangiography
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Fibroma / congenital*
  • Fibroma / diagnosis
  • Fibroma / diagnostic imaging
  • Fibroma / surgery
  • Heart Neoplasms / congenital*
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery
  • Heart Ventricles* / surgery
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn