Cor Vasa 2019, 61(6):625-628 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2019.039
Giant cardiac hydatid cyst mimicking coronary artery disease: imaging assessment. A report of two cases
- a Cardiology B Department of CHU Ibn Sina Rabat,Morocco
- b Cardiothoracic Surgery B Department of CHU Ibn Sina Rabat, Morocco
- c Department of Anaesthesiology of the Cardiothoracic Surgery B, CHU Ibn Sina Rabat, Morocco
- * Authors participating equally in this paper: manuscript preparation and literature search.
Cardiac hydatid cyst is an extremely rare and uncommon localization of the hydatid disease with deadly complications. We report 2 cases admitted for chest pain and abnormal ECG due to a giant cardiac cystic lesion implanted in the left ventricle. Even though echocardiography is a very sensitive and accessible diagnostic tool, we deepened the investigation using all different imaging modalities for a better approach of the morphological features and specificities of each technique and narrowing the differential diagnosis. Only few cases have been fully illustrated through: TTE, cardiac MRI, contrast-enhanced computed tomography, cardiac computed tomography angiography and per-operatory transesophageal echocardiography which guided the surgical procedure.
Keywords: Cardiac, Complications, Hydatid cyst, Imaging
Accepted: January 21, 2019; Published: December 15, 2019 Show citation
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