Cardiac rhabdomyoma in an adult patient presenting with right ventricular outflow tract obstruction

Yalçın Ö.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY, no.3, pp.105-107, 2008 (SCI-Expanded)

  • Publication Type: Article / Editorial Material
  • Publication Date: 2008
  • Journal Name: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.105-107
  • Kütahya Health Sciences University Affiliated: No

Abstract

We present a 24 year old ıroman with cardiac rhabdomyorna. Cardiac rhabdomyoma is üe most common benign. cardiac fumor in infants,

but in adults, cardiac rhabdomyoma is very raıe. These tumors are often spontaneously reversible because they are associated to the right or

left ventricular outflow tact obstruction, tachyarrhyümias and heart failuıe where surgery is necessary'