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Surgical excision of a right ventricular outflow tract rhabdomyoma in a 2-year-old child resulted in complete recovery with no recurrence at 2 years of follow-up.
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Surgical excision of a symptomatic right ventricular outflow tract rhabdomyoma in a pediatric patient is an effective and curative treatment for severe obstruction.
The most common cardiac tumour in the pediatric age group is rhabdomyoma. These are usually located in the ventricles, either in the ventricular septum or free wall. Cardiac tumours in early infancy may lead to severely compromised blood flow due to inflow or outflow tract obstruction. The diagnosis of cardiac rhabdomyoma can be established by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). Rhabdomyomas have a natural history of spontaneous regression; surgical intervention is reserved for patients with symptoms of severe obstruction or hemodynamic instability. In this study, a case of two-year old child who presented with failure to thrive and underwent excision of pedunculated mass from the right ventricular outflow tract was reported.
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Kumar et al. (2019) conducted a case report in Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction due to cardiac rhabdomyoma (n=1). Surgical excision was evaluated on Survival and recurrence. Surgical excision of a right ventricular outflow tract rhabdomyoma in a 2-year-old child resulted in complete recovery with no recurrence at 2 years of follow-up.
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