Key result
Surgical resection successfully treats a giant RV fibroma in a symptomatic 3-month-old infant.
Why the study?
Cardiac fibromas typically do not require surgical intervention except when causing limited cardiac output or significant arrhythmia burden.
Surgical resection can be successfully performed in symptomatic infants with giant right ventricular fibromas.
Supports feasibility of resection in this rare infant case; leaves open generalizability and optimal management strategies.
Cardiac Fibromas are primary cardiac tumours more common in children than in adults. Surgical intervention is often not required except in the case of limited cardiac output or significant arrhythmia burden. We present a symptomatic 3-month-old infant who had successful surgical intervention for a giant right ventricle fibroma found on prenatal imaging.
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Marshall et al. (2019) studied this question. Surgical resection successfully treated a giant right ventricle fibroma, initially found on prenatal imaging, in a symptomatic 3-month-old infant.
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