Huge cardiac cyst hydatid causing cardiac symptoms and electrocardiographic changes

Serkan Yuksel; Okan Gulel; Muzaffer Elmali; Abdurrahman Kale; Mahmut Sahin

doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep109

Huge cardiac cyst hydatid causing cardiac symptoms and electrocardiographic changes

Eur J Echocardiogr. 2009 Dec;10(8):991-2. doi: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep109. Epub 2009 Sep 12.

Authors

Serkan Yuksel¹, Okan Gulel, Muzaffer Elmali, Abdurrahman Kale, Mahmut Sahin

Affiliation

¹ Tokat Government Hospital, Cardiology Clinic, Tokat, Turkey. [email protected]

PMID: 19749197
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep109

Abstract

Here we present a huge cardiac cyst hydatid case with wonderful echocardiographic and computed tomographic images, causing cardiac symptoms and electrocardiographic changes.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Diagnosis, Differential
Echinococcosis / diagnostic imaging*
Echocardiography
Electrocardiography
Heart Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Heart Diseases / parasitology*
Humans
Male
Tomography, X-Ray Computed