Images in cardiovascular medicine. Left ventricular echinococcosis with peripheral embolization

Circulation. 2002 Sep 24;106(13):1741-2. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.0000035274.48425.92.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Disease Progression
  • Echinococcosis / complications*
  • Echinococcosis / diagnosis*
  • Echinococcosis / therapy
  • Echinococcus / isolation & purification
  • Echocardiography, Doppler
  • Embolism / diagnosis
  • Embolism / etiology*
  • Embolism / parasitology
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / complications
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / diagnosis
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation
  • Heart Ventricles / parasitology*
  • Heart Ventricles / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mitral Valve / parasitology
  • Mitral Valve / surgery
  • Neurocysticercosis / diagnosis
  • Neurocysticercosis / etiology
  • Thrombectomy
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed