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Left ventricular fibroma in two children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Chan Uhng Joo ,
Kong Soo Kim  and
Hyang Suck Yoon
Chan Uhng Joo*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Chonbuk National University College of Medicine, Chonbuk, Korea
Kong Soo Kim
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Chonbuk National University College of Medicine, Chonbuk, Korea
Hyang Suck Yoon
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Wonkwang University Hospital, Chonbuk, Korea
*
Chan Uhng Joo, M.D. Department of Pediatrics, Chonbuk National University Hospital, 634-18 Keumam-dong, Chonju, Chonbuk, 560-182, South Korea. Tel 82-652-250-1471; Fax: 82-652-250-1464
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Abstract

Primary cardiac tumors are rare in infancy and childhood. We describe the features of large intramural ventricular cardiac fibromas discovered in two children. In the first, a left ventricular apical tumor was discovered by means of echocardiography and left ventriculography in a symptomless 8-year-old boy. The intramural fibroma was successfully resected. In the other case, an 8-month-old female infant with severe congestive heart failure, sudden ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation occurred during left ventriculography. At necropsy a tumor was seen bulging in the anterior wall of the left ventricle and in the ventricular septum. Histology showed the tumor to be a fibroma.

Keywords

Cardiac tumofibroma
Type
Brief-Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 462 - 464
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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