Key result
Urgent surgical excision successfully treats critical neonatal cardiac tumors without recurrence at 12 months.
Why the study?
Primary cardiac tumors in newborns are rare and timely diagnosis is challenging due to lack of specific symptoms.
Case Report (n=2)
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Urgent surgical excision is a successful and necessary treatment for newborns presenting with critical hemodynamic compromise due to cardiac myxomas.
Supports urgent excision in critical neonatal cases; hypothesis-generating given small sample and short follow-up.
Primary cardiac tumors are quite rare pathology in newborns. The most common of it is rhabdomyoma. Myxomas, in contrast to the adult population, are much less common. Aim. In our report we present our experience in treating newborns with cardiac tumors. Material and Methods. We report two clinical cases. The children were taken to hospital in urgent order with critical hemodynamic disorders caused by tumor process. The tumors were removed during urgent surgeries. According to histological study these were myxomas. Results and discussion. During further observation no signs of tumors recurrences were detected. For successful treatment of cardiac tumors is very important timely diagnosis, that can be difficult due to the lack of specific symptoms in children. Conclusions. Echocardiography is a key method of diagnosis of such conditions. Surgical treatment is the method of choice in this pathology.
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Pisklova et al. (2017) conducted a case report in Primary cardiac tumors (n=2). Urgent surgical tumor excision was evaluated on Tumor recurrence and survival. Urgent surgical excision of primary cardiac tumors in two newborns with critical hemodynamic compromise was successful, with no recurrences detected during up to 12 months of follow-up.
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