作者: Burak Onuk , Ibrahim Duvan , Umit Sungur , Asiye Bakkaloglu , Murat Kurtoglu
DOI: 10.5455/JCVS.2015337
关键词: Infestation 、 Parasitic infection 、 Surgical approach 、 Medicine 、 Surgery 、 Hydatid cyst 、 Echinococcus granulosus 、 Disease 、 Male patient
摘要: Hydatid disease (HD) is a parasitic infection caused by larvae of Echinococcus granulosus. HD may affect almost any part the body. Cardiac involvement in uncommon, constituting only 0.5-2% all cases hydatidosis. Here, we present 29-year-old male patient with right ventricular hydatid cyst treated surgically. Surgery still remains treatment choice management HD. We also believe that routine echocardiographic screening be useful endemic regions where infestation common.