Surgical management of cardiac hydatidosis.
Cardiac hydatidosis is extremely uncommon; only a few case series have been reported in the worldwide medical literature. Whereas hydatid cysts develop in the liver or lungs in 90% of patients who have hydatidosis, only 0.5% to 2% of patients thus diagnosed have cysts of the heart. Herein, we present the clinical summaries of 4 patients who had cardiac hydatid cysts-0.5% of the 763 patients who underwent surgery for thoracic hydatidosis over a period of 20 years at Ibn-Alnafis Teaching Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. In addition, we discuss our operative technique. A year after surgical treatment and medical therapy, all 4 patients were free of hydatid disease.
Shehatha
Jaffar
J
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Ibn-Alnafis Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
Alward
Mustafa
M
Saxena
Pankaj
P
Konstantinov
Igor E
IE
D000328:Adult; D015766:Albendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000923:Anticestodal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D004445:Echinococcosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007493:Iraq; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult
D000923:Anticestodal Agents; D015766:Albendazole