Cardiac hydatidosis

• Verfasst von: Braggion-Santos, Maria F. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Abdel-Aty, Hassan [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Hofmann, Nina [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Katus, Hugo [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Steen, Henning [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Cardiac hydatidosis
• Titelzusatz: a follow-up with cardiovascular magnetic resonance
• Verf.angabe: Maria Fernanda Braggion-Santos, Hassan Abdel-Aty, Nina Hofmann, Hugo Albert Katus, Henning Steen
• Jahr: 2012
• Umfang: 4 S.
• Fussnoten: Originally published October 30, 2012 ; Gesehen am 14.06.2018
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Circulation
• Ort Quelle: Philadelphia, Pa. : Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 1950
• Jahr Quelle: 2012
• Band/Heft Quelle: 126(2012), 18, Seite 2257-2260
• ISSN Quelle: 1524-4539
• DOI: doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.117176
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1576370852

Abstract

We present a case of a 38-year-old Turkish patient with a previously diagnosed cardiac hydatidosis, which is a parasitic infection most commonly induced by Echinococcus granulosus and with only rare cardiac involvement (0.5%-2.0%). In 1998, the patient survived a cardiogenic shock caused by the rupture of 1 hydatic cyst and concomitant cardiac tamponade. Postsurgery, the patient was treated pharmacologically with albendazole. In 2006, a cardiac magnetic resonance and a computed tomography examination showed recurrent myocardial cystic formations (Figure 1). Disadvantageously, the largest cyst was located in the inferior wall of the left ventricle in close vicinity to the mitral valvular apparatus. An interdisciplinary conference came to the conclusion to neither treat the patient surgically, because of an extensive myocardial and perivalvular defect, nor pharmacologically with albendazole, because even anthelmintic medical intervention …