COMPLICATED HYDATID CYST OF THE RIGHT AUR ICLE SIMULATING MYXOMA OF THE TRICUSPID-VALVE

Authors
JERIDI G BOUGHZALA E HAJRI S HEDIJI A AMMAR H
Citation
G. Jeridi et al., COMPLICATED HYDATID CYST OF THE RIGHT AUR ICLE SIMULATING MYXOMA OF THE TRICUSPID-VALVE, Annales de cardiologie et d'angeiologie, 46(3), 1997, pp. 159-162
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System","Peripheal Vascular Diseas
Journal title
Annales de cardiologie et d'angeiologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00033928
Volume
46
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
159 - 162
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-3928(1997)46:3<159:CHCOTR>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
The authors report the case of a 6-year-old girl with multi-organ hyda tid disease, revealed by a complication : hydatid cyst of the right at rium. They emphasize the latency and clinical polymorphism of right ca rdiac sites of hydatid cyst and the severity of its prognosis. The par ticular site of this right atrial tumour and its relations with the se ptal leaflet of the tricuspid valve could be confused, on echocardiogr aphy, with myxoma of the tricuspid valve. The aetiology in this case w as confirmed at surgery.