Prenatal diagnosis of multiple cardiac tumors presenting as an arrhythmia

✍ Scribed by Stephen D. Hoadley; Roger L. Wallace; Jacelyn F. Miller; Joseph P. Murgo

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 542 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870140813

✦ Synopsis

Intracardiac tumors are rare, particularly when first diagnosed in the prenatal period.' It is well known that they can present as ventricular tachycardia in the infant or pediatric patient.2 An in-tracardiac tumor presenting as fetal arrhythmias has not, however, been reported previously. The following report describes such a case diagnosed by prenatal echocardiography.

CASE REPORT

A 27-year-old Latin-American woman, gravida 2 para 1, was found to have irregular fetal heart sounds on a routine prenatal visit at 28 weeks of gestation. Her prenatal course had been otherwise uncomplicated, and she had been on no medica-From the