title: Cardiac hydatid cysts: surgical treatment and results.
abstract: From 1991 to 2000 six patients with intracardiac echinococcosis underwent surgical treatment. Four patients were females and two were males, age of the patients ranged from 20 to 68 years. Two patients had symptoms, all patients were diagnosed as a component of multi-organ echinococcosis and three of them underwent operation before. They were examined serologically and echocardiographically. Cardiac hydatidosis were diagnosed in right ventricle (in three cases), left ventricle (in one case), and interventricular septum (in two cases). Sternotomy was the approach used and all patients were operated on using cardiopulmonary bypass. Intraoperative rupture did not occur. There was no operative mortality, the only morbidity was complete atrioventricular block necessitating VVD pacemaker implantation in the patient with hydatid cyst involving the basal interventricular septum. All patients were followed by medical treatment with albendazole (400 mg/day) and no recurrences were reported in the late follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Koşuyolu Heart and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Vedat
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Erentuğ
authors.forename: Nilgün
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bozbuğa
authors.forename: Kaan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kirali
authors.forename: Ilker
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mataraci
authors.forename: Cihangir
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kaymaz
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Balkanay
authors.forename: Esat
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Akinci
authors.forename: Gökhan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ipek
authors.forename: Cevat
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yakut
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged