Why the study?
Does emergency surgical excision improve outcomes in newborns with left ventricular rhabdomyoma causing hemodynamic instability?
Does emergency surgical excision improve outcomes in newborns with left ventricular rhabdomyoma causing hemodynamic instability?
Emergency surgical excision of cardiac rhabdomyomas causing hemodynamic instability in newborns can be performed successfully with good short-term outcomes.
Supports emergency excision for symptomatic neonatal LV rhabdomyoma; leaves open need for multicenter outcome data.
The incidence of cardiac tumors increased with the improvement of imaging techniques in infants. Rhabdomyomas are the most common tumors in this group of patients. We herein report a 40-day-old male patient with left ventricular rhabdomyoma. The tumor caused syncope attack and supraventricular tachycardia. An emergency operation was planned and the life-threatening lesion was excised via left ventriculotomy. The patient was extubated on postoperative sixth hour and discharged from hospital on the sixth day of the postoperative period without any problem. This successful operation encourages us not to hesitate to perform an operation in newborns with cardiac neoplasms causing hemodynamic instability.
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