Pericardial Hydatic Cyst: An Unusual Cause of Heart Failure

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Abdessamad Abdou A. Boulahya Oussama Almaghraoui R. Ezzahraoui M. Alaoui

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Abdessamad Abdou
Department of cardiovascular surgery, Avicenna Military hospital, Marrakesh medical school, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco

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Pericardial hydatic cyst is rare even in endemic countries. We report a case of 69-year-old man with isolated pericardial hydatid cyst that presented an overall heart failure. Tran thoracic echocardiography and computed tomography are revealed the pericardial cystic mass. Surgical cystectomy was realized without cardiopulmonary bypass. In post-operative the patient received albendazole. He remained asymptomatic without recurrence during 18 months follow-up period.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Wed 22, Jul 2020
Accepted: Tue 04, Aug 2020
Published: Fri 21, Aug 2020

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© 2023 Abdessamad Abdou. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.EJCR.2020.01.01