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A large ventricular fibroma requiring surgical resection in a symptomatic 3-month-old infant

Part of: Surgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2019

Anderson S. Marshall Open the ORCID record for Anderson S. Marshall [Opens in a new window] ,
Robert J. Dabal  and
Mark A. Law
Anderson S. Marshall*
Affiliation:
Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Children’s of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
Robert J. Dabal
Affiliation:
Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Children’s of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
Mark A. Law
Affiliation:
Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Children’s of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
*
Author for correspondence: A. S. Marshall, MD, Children’s of Alabama, 1600 7th Avenue S, Dearth Tower, 4th Floor, Birmingham, AL35233-1711, USA. Tel: +1 214 500 5940; Fax: +1 205 638 9977; E-mail: asmarshall@uabmc.edu
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Abstract

Cardiac Fibromas are primary cardiac tumours more common in children than in adults. Surgical intervention is often not required except in the case of limited cardiac output or significant arrhythmia burden. We present a symptomatic 3-month-old infant who had successful surgical intervention for a giant right ventricle fibroma found on prenatal imaging.

Keywords

Paediatric cardiothoracic surgerycardiac tumourfibroma
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 129 - 130
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2019

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