Surgical Treatment of Coronary Insufficiency Produced by Cardiac Echinococcosis

Synchronized coronary revascularization and multiple cardiac cysthydatid operation

“…Epicardial cysthydatid can cause myocardial infarction with compression on the coronary artery branches and can mimic coronary artery disease. 10 We performed an angiography for chest pain in our patient and found a significant stenosis in left anterior descending artery and performed left internal mammary arter and LAD anastomosis in the same session. Angiography is also important for diagnosis, true diagnosis, and convenient surgical therapy in the patients with anginalike complaints and findings.…”

Isolated Invasive Endomyocardial Cystic Echinococcosis Presenting with Heart Failure

“…Early diagnosis of cardiac cystic echinococcosis is rather difficult beacuse of long interval between beginning of the infestation and development of symptoms and besides symptoms are nonspecific [8]. …”

Surgical Treatment of Cardiac Echinococcosis: Report of Eight Cases

“…Therefore, life-threatening complications such as intracardiac rupture, systemic and pulmonary embolism, disturbance of cardiac rhythm and conduction, heart failure, and ischemic syndromes may be the first signs and symptoms of this disease. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Although serologic diagnostic tests have higher sensitivity than the Casoni-Weinberg test, they are positive in only 60% of pulmonary and 80%-90% of hepatic cases. 14 To our knowledge, there are no available data on serologic findings in cases of cardiac involvement.…”

“…1 The clinical presentation of cardiac hydatid disease is extremely variable, making diagnosis difficult; however, establishing an early diagnosis and initiating definitive treatment is very important, because of the risk of potentially lethal complications including intracardiac rupture, systemic and pulmonary embolism, heart failure, and acute ischemic syndromes, all of which are associated with a high mortality rate of 23.47%. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Surgical excision of hydatid cysts of the heart is accepted as a simple and curative treatment that is associated with low mortality and morbidity rates. The (Fig.…”