Surgical removal of intracardiac tumors was performed in all 4 presented cases of symptomatic infants, highlighting the need for intervention in hemodynamically significant tumors.
Surgical removal is a necessary intervention for infants with intracardiac tumors that become symptomatic due to hemodynamic interference.
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Intracardiac tumors in children are rare, mostly benign, and occasionally related to genetic syndromes (p.e. tuberous sclerosis or Gorlin syndrome). Echocardiography, CT and MRI are the golden standard for diagnosis and surgical removal is indicated when the tumor is symptomatic by hemodynamic interference. We present 4 cases of infants with an intracardiac tumor, all of them needing surgical removal.
Nobels et al. (Mon,) reported a other. Surgical removal of intracardiac tumors was performed in all 4 presented cases of symptomatic infants, highlighting the need for intervention in hemodynamically significant tumors.