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Cardiac echinococcus complicated by ventricular tachycardia
1Department of Cardiology, Azienda Ospedaliera Villa Sofia & CTO, Palermo, Italy.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|December 12, 2001
Abstract:
Echinococcosis is a parasitic disease that usually involves lungs and liver. Occasionally, it localizes in the heart (less than 2% of cases). We present a case of an adult patient with cardiac echinococcosis complicated by ventricular tachycardia. The diagnosis, based on transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and computerized tomography (CT), was confirmed by surgery.