Cardiac tumour in a neonate with tuberous sclerosis: echocardiographic demonstration and magnetic resonance imaging

✍ Scribed by H. Shiraishi; M. Yanagisawa; T. Kuramatsu; H. Shimoizumi; O. Tanaka

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 778 KB
• Volume: 148
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-6997
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00441814

✦ Synopsis

In a neonate with tuberous sclerosis, cardiac tumours were diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardiography and evaluated by electrocardiogram-gated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The tumour size, shape and mobility in the ventricular cavities were more precisely determined by two-dimensional echocardiography than electrocardiogramgated MRI, while the extent of tumour mass at the apex was more clearly delineated by MRI. As two-dimensional echocardiography provides real-time imaging of cardiac anatomy without sedation, it is useful for initial evaluation of cardiac masses in neonates with genetic predisposition to tuberous sclerosis.