Tuberous sclerosis echocardiography or ultrasound

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: José Eduardo Riceto Loyola Junior, M.D.[2]

Echocardiography/ultrasound may be helpful raising the suspicion of tuberous sclerosis.

• Echocardiographs can detect cardiac rhabdomyomas, present in more than 80% of the children with TSC.^[1]

• Ultrasound can detect hepatic angiomyolipomas, renal angiomyolipomas (present in 55-75% of patients) and renal cysts (present in 18-55% of the patients)^[1]