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Obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract caused by a tuberculoma in a patient with ventricular septal defect and aneurysm of the membranous septum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Cleusa Lapa Santos ,
Fernando Moraes  and
Carlos R. Moraes
Cleusa Lapa Santos
Affiliation:
Heart Institute of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Fernando Moraes
Affiliation:
Heart Institute of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Carlos R. Moraes*
Affiliation:
Heart Institute of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
*
Carlos R. Moraes, MD. Av. Portugal, 163, Recife 52010–010, Brazil. Tel: +55 81 2315968; Fax: +55 81 2210382.
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Abstract

Reported here is an obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract caused by a tuberculoma in a 15-year-old boy who presented with a ventricular septal defect. The obstruction was discovered at surgery and the tuberculous aetiology was only demonstrated histologically. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of a tuberculoma of the heart associated with congenital heart disease.

Keywords

Tuberculosistuberculoma of the myocardiumsurgery
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , September 1999 , pp. 509 - 511
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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