Related Experiment Videos
Cardiac hydatid cyst and pulmonary hydatidosis in a child
Ebru Yalçin1, Deniz Doğru, Uğur Ozçelik
1Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|January 2, 2003
Abstract:
Hydatidosis in the lungs is unusual, and a cardiac localization occurs rarely. We report a child with cardiac hydatid cyst that developed during albendazole treatment for preceding multiple pulmonary hydatid lesions. The cardiac lesion was treated by surgical excision, and the pulmonary cysts improved with a combination of praziquantel and albendazole therapy.