Giant left ventricular rhabdomyoma treated successfully with everolimus: case report and review of literature

Introduction: Intracardiac rhabdomyomas can cause severe ventricular dysfunction and outflow tract obstruction. Case report: A term newborn infant with antenatal diagnosis of giant left ventricle rhabdomyoma presented with cardiac failure and duct-dependent systemic circulation after birth. She was treated successfully with everolimus, showing decrease in tumour size and improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction. Discussion: Tumour regression rate was 0.32 cm(2)/day and improved to 0.80 cm(2)/day with the use of everolimus. Herein we report a newborn with inoperable giant left ventricular cardiac rhabdomyoma and significant regression of the tumour. To our knowledge, this is the largest left ventricular rhabdomyoma reported. A review of the literature was undertaken for comparison. Conclusion: Everolimus has proven to be efficacious in size reduction of cardiac rhabdomyomas in cases when surgical resection is not possible.