title: Cardiac hydatid cyst: report of two cases.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Gaziantep University Medical Faculty, Gaziantep, Turkey. hustunsoy@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Haşim
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ustünsoy
authors.forename: Ilyas
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Akdemir
authors.forename: M Cumhur
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Sivrikoz
authors.forename: Nursan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tahtaci
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aksoy
authors.forename: Bülent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tunçözgür