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Fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma: a sheep or a wolf?
Avihu Z Gazit1, Gautam K Singh, Joseph Shumway
1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
Abstract:
Rhabdomyoma is the most common primary cardiac tumor identified in utero and in infancy. Usually it has a benign course, which has prompted an expectant approach to its management. We report herein the cases of three patients who presented prenatally with cardiac rhabdomyomas. Only one of them had a benign course. The other two patients provided recognizable characteristics of rhabdomyomas with an unfavorable course and demonstrated that fetal rhabdomyomas can have a fatal outcome.
