title: [Cardiac echinococcosis. Case report and review of the literature].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica, Università di Pisa.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spinelli
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gori
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Berti
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pierallini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Durno
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Angeletti
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Miccoli
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000601:surgery; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans