ReviewPediatric cardiology
Fetal and neonatal cardiac tumors.
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87 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 350 citations in OpenAlex.
- Everolimus and sirolimus in the treatment of cardiac rhabdomyomas in neonates.Pediatric research · 2025Pooled it
- Drug review: mTOR-inhibitor therapy in fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma-a tightrope walk.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Echogenicities in the Fetal Heart: Echocardiographic Evaluation, Differential Diagnosis and Clinical Outcomes.Pediatric cardiology · 2026Review
- Prenatal Use of Sirolimus in Fetal Therapy: Current Evidence, Clinical Applications, and Future Directions.Cureus · 2026Review
- Prenatal diagnosis of cardiac rhabdomyoma: implications for predicting tuberous sclerosis complex and guiding perinatal management.Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology · 2026Article
- First-Trimester Cardiac Myxoma Diagnosed at 12 Weeks with Postmortem Validation.Pediatric cardiology · 2026Article
- Fetal cardiomyopathy secondary to infiltrative cardiac fibroma.Pediatric cardiology · 2026Article
- Fatal Neonatal Cardiac Rhabdomyoma Presenting With Pulmonary Hypoplasia: An Autopsy Case Report From Jamaica.Cureus · 2026Article
- Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Children with Primary Cardiac Tumors Hospitalized from 1997 to 2019 in the United States.Pediatric cardiology · 2026Article
- Paediatric Cardiac Tumours: A National Population Study.Pediatric cardiology · 2026Article
- Intrapericardial Extralobar Pulmonary Sequestration: A Case Report and Systematic Review of a Unique Embryologic Variant.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Prenatal diagnosis and outcomes of fetal cardiac tumors: a 10-year single-center study of 81 cases.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Life-threatening arrhythmias from dynamic LVOT obstruction by a large left ventricular fibroma in an adolescent: complete resolution after combined transaortic-transatrial resection-a case report.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Familial hereditary cardiac myxoma: report of three cases and literature review.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Review
- Whole exome sequencing in fetal cardiac rhabdomyoma detected by ultrasonography: an analysis of 12 cases.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Sudden Death in a Child Revealing a Multifocal Cardiac Fibroma: A Hidden Lethal Threat.Cureus · 2025Article
- Difference in pre- and postnatal prevalence of congenital cardiac tumors in a large population-based cohort.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2025Observational
- Fetal cardiac masses.Pediatric radiology · 2025Review
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- Pericardial effusion in an infant with cardiac capillary hemangioma: a case report.Journal of surgical case reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Primary tumors of the heart are uncommon in the fetus and neonate. Nevertheless, the widespread use of new imaging techniques has contributed significantly to earlier diagnosis, treatment, and thus improved survival. The clinical findings, imaging studies, pathology, and outcome of 224 fetuses and neonates with cardiac tumors collected from the literature are evaluated and discussed. Most tumors are benign, and of these rhabdomyoma is the most common, followed by teratoma, fibroma, oncocytic cardiomyopathy, vascular tumors, and myxoma. Malignant and metastatic tumors are described but are rare. Murmurs, arrhythmias, cyanosis, respiratory distress, and cardiac failure are the main presenting signs of cardiac tumors in the perinatal period. Disturbances in hemodynamic function are correlated with the size and location of the tumor. Cardiac vascular tumors have the best outcome, whereas malignant tumors have the worst. The purpose of this review is to concentrate on the fetus and neonate in an attempt to determine the various ways cardiac tumors differ clinically and morphologically in this age group from those occurring in older children and adults and to show that certain types of tumors have a better prognosis than others.
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