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Ann Thorac Surg 1992;53:328-329
© 1992 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Cardiac echinococcosis: Cyst removal in a beating heart

Gawie J. Rossouw, MMed(Thor), FCS(Thor)*, Christopher J. Knott-Craig, MMed(Thor), Paul E. Erasmus, MB, ChB

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tygerberg Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa

Accepted for publication July 23, 1991.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Rossouw, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg 7505, South Africa.

A 17-year-old asymptomatic boy from a sheep farm had a systolic murmur on routine examination. The diagnosis of Echinococcus cyst in the right ventricular outflow tract was made by echocardiography. The cyst was removed with success with the patient on cardiopulmonary bypass with a beating heart.




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