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Cardiac echinococcosis: cyst removal in a beating heart
G J Rossouw1, C J Knott-Craig, P E Erasmus
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tygerberg Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
A 17-year-old asymptomatic boy from a sheep farm had a systolic murmur on routine examination. The diagnosis of Echinococcus cyst in the right ventricular outflow tract was made by echocardiography. The cyst was removed with success with the patient on cardiopulmonary bypass with a beating heart.
