[Echinococcal cyst of the right ventricle: diagnostic role of 2-dimensional echocardiography].
A case of cardiac echinococcosis in a 22 year-old woman is reported. Clinical findings and cardiac catheterization data offered only presumptive evidence of an intraventricular mass but failed to make a positive diagnosis of cardiac involvement by hydatid disease. Using Two-Dimensional Echocardiography (2-DE) we were able to identify a rounded structure with multiple loculation into the right ventricle, highly suggestive of a hydatid cyst. Surgery confirmed our findings. We confirm the ability of 2-DE to detect and characterise intracardiac masses and we suggest that 2-DE could be considered the procedure of choice in the diagnosis of cardiac hydatid disease.
D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans
Cisti da echinococco del ventricolo destro: ruolo diagnostico dell'ecocardiografia bidimensionale.