Sudden cardiac arrest as first symptom of a benign cardiac tumor growth
| Autor: | Montserrat Bret-Zurita, Ángel Aroca Peinado, Federico Gutiérrez-Larraya Aguado, Natalia Rivero Jiménez, Marta Ortega Molina |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Pediatrics Hemodynamic compromise 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cardiac fibroma Internal medicine Medicine Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system 030212 general & internal medicine Neurologic sequelae Cardiac Tumors Tumors business.industry Cardiac rhabdomyoma Pediatric age Sudden cardiac arrest Benign Cardiac Tumor medicine.disease Cardiac arrest RC666-701 Cardiology cardiovascular system medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Revista Colombiana de Cardiología, Vol 25, Iss 1, Pp 102.e1-102.e5 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 0120-5633 |
| Popis: | Primary cardiac tumors are rare, especially in the pediatric age. Most of them are benign in the sense they are not invasive. However, benign tumors maintain the potential for serious illness related to significant hemodynamic compromise or life-threatening dysrhythmias. We present the case of an infant with an initial diagnosis of cardiac rhabdomyoma who suffered ventricular arrhythmia and cardiac arrest. He suffered irreversible severe neurologic sequelae, due to his prolonged cardiopulmonary arrest and was finally diagnosed of cardiac fibroma. Good arrhythmia control was obtained after an extensive partial surgical resection of the tumor. This case highlights the importance of arrhythmia burden in this condition. A correct diagnosis based essentially in different imaging modalities and closer clinical and rhythm follow up could have avoided this ominous event. |
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