Hydatid Cyct Disease with Extra Hepatic Localizations

Abstract

Echinococus granulosus causes the echinococcosis also known as hydatid cyst disease. Hydatid cyst disease is a parasitic infection. This parasit is identified by Basch for the first time and defined as echinococus granulosus [1]. Hydatid cyst is presently a prevalent health problem in our country. Echinococus granulosus may indwell all the organs. But liver and lungs are affected usually. Especially; extrahepatic localization is rare. Animals consumed as nutrients, are parasit's intermediate host. The last host is canine genus. The echinococus larvas named as hexagons, are taken by gastrointestinal way. The embryos come to liver by the veins and to the other organs by the lenfatic way. In this article, hydatid cyst cases presenting with different clinical features and localized in extrahepatic organs, are discussed. Methods Patients; with hydatid cysts who are operated in our hospital, between 2015 and 2018, were evaluated. 20 patients with hydatid cyst disease who has extra hepatic located cysts, were detected.Patients were evaluated in terms of; age, sex, location of the cyst, cyst size, diagnostic method, applied surgical method and recurrence. Chest radiography, ultrasonography (USG) and computerized tomography (CT) was performed for all patients before surgery.1/320 serum titres were accepted as positive for echinococcosis for indirect hemagglutination test (IHA) in our hospital. Liver located cases and echinococcus alveolaris cases were eleminated. ResultsFigure 1: Gender distribution of the patients.

Extra-hepatopulmonary cystic echinococcosis in Bulgaria: frequency, management and outcome of the disease

“…According to our study, most common is the spleen involvement: 1.4% from all reported cases of CE for the studied period and 27.03% from the cases with extra-hepatopulmonary localization. Regarding this organ localization, our data are similar to those of some authors (Eris et al ., 2013; Belli et al ., 2014; Çakır et al ., 2016; Bartın, 2019) and differ significantly from others (Akcam et al ., 2014). In 92.5% of the cases with splenic localization the presence of a solitary hydatid cyst in the organ was found, and only in 7.5% ( n = 3) the presence of two or more cysts was found.…”