Abstract
Cardiac fibroma mimicking hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a 5-month-old infant
Highlights
Primary cardiac tumors in children are rare; that is, only 0.0270.08%
A cine view of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed the regional myocardial thickening (Figure 1D), which had signal characteristics similar to the remaining myocardium on T1-weighted fast spin-echo and fat suppression images (Figure 1E). It appeared with mild hypo-intensity on T2-weighted fast spin-echo images (Figure 1F). These typical MRI characterizations permitted ruling out the presence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and allowed a confident diagnosis of rare cardiac fibroma (Videos 3 and 4)
Congenital, histologically benign tumors usually located in the left ventricular free wall or septum [5]
Summary
Feifei Sun1, Fangfang Li1, Liping Huang1, Weidong Ren1* and Xin Zhang2 1Department of Ultrasound, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China 2Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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