Fetal Pericardial Teratoma

Angela Desmond, MD; Gary Satou, MD; Meena Garg, MD; Suhas Kallapur, MD; Janet Horenstein, MD; Jeffrey Goldstein, MD; Glen Van Arsdell, MD; Yalda Afshar, MD, PhD

JACC: Case Reports (Feb 2024)

Fetal Pericardial Teratoma

Angela Desmond, MD,
Gary Satou, MD,
Meena Garg, MD,
Suhas Kallapur, MD,
Janet Horenstein, MD,
Jeffrey Goldstein, MD,
Glen Van Arsdell, MD,
Yalda Afshar, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Angela Desmond, MD: Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA
Gary Satou, MD: Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA
Meena Garg, MD: Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA
Suhas Kallapur, MD: Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA
Janet Horenstein, MD: Center for Fetal and Women’s Ultrasound, Los Angeles, California, USA
Jeffrey Goldstein, MD: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Glen Van Arsdell, MD: Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Yalda Afshar, MD, PhD: Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; Address for correspondence: Dr Yalda Afshar, University of California-Los Angeles, 200 Medical Plaza, Suite 430, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 29, no. 3
p. 102169

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A very large fetal pericardial teratoma was diagnosed at 28 weeks’ gestation, prompting urgent multidisciplinary expert consultations to weigh the risks and benefits of various prenatal invasive procedures and preterm delivery for postnatal surgical management. Ultimately, the infant was born by planned cesarean section and underwent immediate cardiopulmonary bypass and surgical resection.

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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