Surgical treatment of cardiac echinococcus

Abstract

The presence of pathological murmurs in the region of the heart, cardiomegaly are most often the result of congenital and acquired heart defects, less often, inflammatory or tumor lesions. Similar pathological manifestations of mo W can be observed with such a rare heart damage as echinococcosis. According to a number of authors, with echinococcosis, the frequency of heart damage is only 0.5-2%. At the same time, significant difficulties arise not only in diagnosis, but also in the choice of surgical tactics and methods of surgical treatment. We did not find information on the surgical treatment of cardiac echinococcus in the available domestic literature.