Prenatally Diagnosis and Outcome of Fetuses with Cardiac Rhabdomyoma - Single Centre Experience

Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
Ramush BejiqiHana Bejiqi

Abstract

Cardiac rhabdomyoma (CRs) are the most common primary tumour of the heart in infants and children. Usually are multiple and, basing on the location can cause a haemodynamic disturbance, dysrhythmias or heart failure during the fetal and early postnatal period. CRs have a natural history of spontaneous regression and are closely associated with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). It has an association with tuberous sclerosis (TS), and in those, the tumour may regress and disappear completely, or remain consistent in size. We aimed to evaluate the prenatal diagnosis, clinical presentation and outcome of CRs and their association with TSC in a single centre. The median follow-up period was three years (range: 6 months - 5 years). We reviewed medical records of all fetuses diagnosed prenatally with cardiac rhabdomyoma covering the period January 2010 to December 2016 which had undergone detailed ultrasound evaluation at a single centre with limited technical resources. Twelve fetuses were included in the study; mostly had multiple tumours and a total of 53 tumours were identified in all patients - the maximum was one fetus with16 tumours. All patients were diagnosed prenatally by fetal echocardiography. In two patient's haemodynamic ...Continue Reading

Citations

Sep 26, 2020·Frontiers in Neuroscience·Antoinette Bernabe Gelot, Alfonso Represa
Aug 31, 2020·Annals of Pediatric Cardiology·Nm Sharath BabuOommen K George
Jul 11, 2019·Prenatal Diagnosis·Luisa F Mariscal-MendizábalMónica Aguinaga-Ríos

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