Intracardiac hydatid cyst located in right ventricular outflow tract: a rare site

Aviral Gupta; Sarvesh C Mishra; Sushila Jaiswal; Shantanu Pande

doi:10.1007/s12055-021-01165-6

Intracardiac hydatid cyst located in right ventricular outflow tract: a rare site

Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Sep;37(5):588-590. doi: 10.1007/s12055-021-01165-6. Epub 2021 Apr 2.

Authors

Aviral Gupta^{1

2

3}, Sarvesh C Mishra^{1

2

3}, Sushila Jaiswal^{1

2

3}, Shantanu Pande^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardio-Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh India.
² Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh India.
³ Department of Pathology, Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh India.

Abstract

Intracardiac hydatid cyst is relatively uncommon and involvement of right ventricular outflow tract is extremely rare. We report a rare case of intracardiac hydatid cyst involving the right ventricular outflow tract and do a review of literature.

Keywords: Hydatid cyst; Intra-cardiac; Right ventricular outflow tract.

Publication types

Case Reports