A multimodality approach of a cardiac echinococcus cyst in an asymptomatic woman

Int J Cardiol. 2016 Jan 1:202:874-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.10.030. Epub 2015 Oct 9.

Authors

Constantina Aggeli¹, Panagiotis Koudounis², Ioannis Felekos¹, Konstantinos Zisimos¹, Athanasios Angelis¹, Nikolaos Alexopoulos³, Dimitrios Tousoulis¹

Affiliations

¹ 1st Cardiology Department, University of Athens Medical School, "Hippokration" Hospital, Athens, Greece.
² 1st Cardiology Department, Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: panagiotis.koudounis@gmail.com.
³ Athens Euroclinic, Athens, Greece.

PMID: 26476046
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.10.030

No abstract available

Keywords: CMR; Cardiac; Cyst; Echinococcus; Echocardiography; Multimodality.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Animals
Cysts / complications
Cysts / diagnosis*
Echinococcosis / complications
Echinococcosis / diagnosis*
Echinococcus* / isolation & purification
Echocardiography / methods
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / methods
Middle Aged
Multimodal Imaging / methods*
Pericardium / pathology*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods