An Infant with High-Output Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension Resulting from a Giant Cutaneous Hemangioma

Andrew A. Lawson, Wayne H. Franklin, Nicolas F. M. Porta, Alan Nugent, Amanda Hauck
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine.
United States

Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatr Cardiol 2024;
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-024-03528-3

Abstract
We present the clinical course of an 8-month-old infant with a giant cutaneous hemangioma resulting in high-output heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. The lesion was successfully embolized and excised, with rapid resolution of heart failure and improvement in pulmonary hypertension.

Category
Class I. Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Congenital Cardiovascular Disease
Surgical and Catheter-mediated Interventions for Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Age Focus: Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Fresh or Filed Publication: Fresh (PHresh). Less than 1-2 years since publication

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