Unusual Presentation of Interventricular Hydatid Cyst: A Case Report

Echinococcus infection typically affects liver and lungs while rarely occur through heart. Cardiac hydatidosis can be fatal or lead to major complications if it is not treated. The majority of patients with cardiac hydatid cysts complain from cardiac problems as their first presentation. However, th...

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Autores principales: TABESH, Hanif, AHMADI TAFTI, Hossein, AMERI, Sara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4450000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26060784
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description Echinococcus infection typically affects liver and lungs while rarely occur through heart. Cardiac hydatidosis can be fatal or lead to major complications if it is not treated. The majority of patients with cardiac hydatid cysts complain from cardiac problems as their first presentation. However, this article reports an unusual case suffers from an interventricular hydatid cyst presented by abdominal pain on 2013. After the patient transferred to Tehran Heart Center, surgical cyst excision with removing germinal layer and concurrent albendazole therapy was prescribed for the management of this Iranian 15 year old female.
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spelling pubmed-44500002015-06-09 Unusual Presentation of Interventricular Hydatid Cyst: A Case Report TABESH, Hanif AHMADI TAFTI, Hossein AMERI, Sara Iran J Public Health Case Report Echinococcus infection typically affects liver and lungs while rarely occur through heart. Cardiac hydatidosis can be fatal or lead to major complications if it is not treated. The majority of patients with cardiac hydatid cysts complain from cardiac problems as their first presentation. However, this article reports an unusual case suffers from an interventricular hydatid cyst presented by abdominal pain on 2013. After the patient transferred to Tehran Heart Center, surgical cyst excision with removing germinal layer and concurrent albendazole therapy was prescribed for the management of this Iranian 15 year old female. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2015-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4450000/ /pubmed/26060784 Text en Copyright © Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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title_short Unusual Presentation of Interventricular Hydatid Cyst: A Case Report
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