Surgical Management of Echinococcal Cysts of the Heart and Pericardium

1 February 1963

journal article
research article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation

Vol. 27 (2) , 219-228
https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.27.2.219

Abstract

Surgical treatment of a 27-year-old man with an echinococcal cyst of the heart is reported, illustrating some difficulties and problems manifested by this lesion. Twenty-seven other patients operated upon for cardiac hydatid disease are reviewed in tabular form. Symptomatology, diagnosis, and management of this rare cardiac lesion are reviewed.

Keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS
ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS
ECHINOCOCCOSIS
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY
EOSINOPHILIA
FORMALDEHYDE
HEART CATHETERIZATION
HEART DISEASES
HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE
HEART SURGERY
HEART, MECHANICAL
HEMOPTYSIS
PERICARDIUM
THORACIC RADIOGRAPHY

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American Heart Journal, 1945
ECHINOCOCCUS CYST OF THE HEART; REPORT OF A CASE
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1941
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The Medical Journal of Australia, 1921