An unusual cause of chest pain: An isolated huge cardiac hydatid cyst.
Begüm UygurFethi Emre UstabasiogluHuseyin KarakurtOkan AkinciOmer CelikPublished in: Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU (2017)
Hydatid disease is a human parasitic infection caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus. The most common locations for hydatid cysts are the liver and lungs. Cardiac involvement is rare, and isolated cardiac hydatid cysts are even more unusual. We report the case a 48-year-old female patient with an isolated huge cardiac hydatid cyst involving both the left ventricular free wall and the pericardium, and presenting with atypical chest pain. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 46:262-264, 2018.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- endothelial cells
- heart failure
- magnetic resonance imaging
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- case report
- mitral valve
- computed tomography
- coronary artery disease
- left atrial
- atrial fibrillation
- aortic valve
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- acute coronary syndrome
- zika virus
- drosophila melanogaster