Cardiac hydatid cyst: report of two cases.
Cardiac hydatid cyst is life threatening but rare. It is usually asymptomatic and has potentially lethal complications, so early diagnosis with definitive treatment is life-saving. In the present article, we report two cases. The first is a 30-year-old woman with a primary large multivesicular hydatid cyst in the left ventricle. The second is a 17-year-old woman who had multivisceral involvement with a cardiac hydatid cyst, a congenital cardiac anomaly that was an atrial septal defect complicated by pulmonary hypertension. 2-D echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the diagnosis. Surgical treatment was performed using extracorporeal circulation and adjunctive albendazol therapy.
Ustünsoy
Haşim
H
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Gaziantep University Medical Faculty, Gaziantep, Turkey. hustunsoy@yahoo.com
Akdemir
Ilyas
I
Sivrikoz
M Cumhur
MC
Tahtaci
Nursan
N
Aksoy
Mehmet
M
Tunçözgür
Bülent
B