Key result
Cardiac tuberculoma causes right ventricular outflow tract obstruction in first reported case with VSD.
Why the study?
Obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract caused by a tuberculoma in a patient with ventricular septal defect and membranous septum aneurysm had not been previously reported.
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Population
A 15-year-old boy with ventricular septal defect and membranous septum aneurysm
Design
Case report
Alerts surgeons to rare infectious causes of RVOT obstruction in CHD; leaves open the incidence of cardiac tuberculoma in congenital lesions.
Reported here is an obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract caused by a tuberculoma in a 15-year-old boy who presented with a ventricular septal defect. The obstruction was discovered at surgery and the tuberculous aetiology was only demonstrated histologically. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of a tuberculoma of the heart associated with congenital heart disease.
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Santos et al. (1999) studied this question. A cardiac tuberculoma caused right ventricular outflow tract obstruction in a patient with a ventricular septal defect, marking the first reported case associated with congenital heart disease.
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