[Rare cause of ischemic cerebrovascular infarct in a young patient: cardiac hydatic cyst]

J Radiol. 1998 Jan;79(1):53-6.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The authors report the case of a 28-year-old man in whom the diagnosis of hydatic cyst of the heart was strongly suspected on echocardiography and CT-scan and confirmed by surgery. The interest of this case is based the total clinical latency of this hydatic cyst discovered by echocardiography during a systematic checkup for cerebrovascular disorders. Echocardiography and spiral scanography with bidimensionnal reconstruction in coronal and sagittal planes allowed a rapid anatomic and topographic diagnosis. CT-scan also identified spread of echinococcosis and discovered a calcifield hydatid cyst of the liver and a multivesicular hydatid cyst of the left kidney.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cardiomyopathies / complications*
  • Cardiomyopathies / diagnosis
  • Cardiomyopathies / surgery
  • Cerebral Infarction / diagnosis
  • Cerebral Infarction / etiology*
  • Cerebral Infarction / surgery
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echinococcosis / complications*
  • Echinococcosis / diagnosis
  • Echinococcosis / surgery
  • Echocardiography*
  • Heart Ventricles / pathology
  • Heart Ventricles / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*