1. Surgical Management of Cardiac Hydatidosis.
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Shehatha, Jaffar, Alward, Mustafa, Saxena, Pankaj, and Konstantinov, Igor E.
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ECHINOCOCCOSIS , *HEART diseases , *LUNG diseases , *SURGICAL therapeutics , *THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
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 flee of hydatid disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009