[Cardiac echinococcosis. Case report and review of the literature].
Cardiac echinococcosis is a rare disease. We report the case of a patient affected by cardiac echinococcosis who underwent surgical treatment successfully. A forty year old woman was hospitalized referring palpitation and dyspnea. The patient had undergone surgical pericystectomy of the right lobe of the liver for echinococcosis 6 month before. Chest X-ray film showed a round opacity well delineated on the left side of the heart, Ghedini reaction was negative, ECG was normal. After a review of literature we analyze anatomo-clinic and therapeutic aspects of the disease.
Spinelli
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Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica, Università di Pisa.
Gori
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L
Berti
P
P
Pierallini
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S
Durno
M
M
Angeletti
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CA
Miccoli
P
P
D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000601:surgery; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans