title: [Surgical treatment of cardiac echinococcosis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the experience of surgical treatment of cardiac echinococcosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-five patients with cardiac echinococcosis, including 15 males and 10 females with a mean age of (29±8) years, undergoing surgical treatment from February 1978 to September 2011 were retrospectively summarized.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were myocardial echinococcosis (n=16), pericardial echinococcosis (n=7), myocardial and pericardial echinococcosis (n=2). The surgical procedures included complete resection of hydatid cysts, cystectomy with needle aspiration and complete removal of endocyst. There was no intraoperative mortality. Twenty-one patients were followed up for 5-168 months. Four patients recurred and 1 died from heart failure at 10 months postoperation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The preferred treatment of cardiac hydatid cyst is surgical resection. And a selection of proper technique is of great importance for excising hydatid cyst and preventing recurrence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830054, China.
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Huo
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.lastname: Murat
authors.forename: Song-feng
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qiao
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000601:surgery*; D004446:Echinococcus; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult