[Cardiac hydatid cyst]. / Ekhinokokkoz serdtsa: klinicheskoe nablyudenie.

Echinococcosis is one of the most common parasitic diseases. Most often, echinococcosis affects the liver and lungs. Difficult diagnosis of hydatid disease is determined by scanty symptoms. Additional difficulties arise in echinococcosis of rare localizations. Cardiac echinococcosis occurs in less than 2% of cases. However, incidence of complications and mortality are much higher in these patients. The authors report successful surgical treatment of cardiac hydatid cyst..

[Ultrasonic diagnosis of hepatic echinococcosis]. / Ekhotomografiia pri ékhinokokkoze pecheni.

Echotomography was used in the complex examination of 84 patients operated upon for echinococcosis of the liver. An analysis of the data obtained has shown echotomography to be highly sensitive in patients with cavital newformations. The method is expedient to be used first in the complex examination of patients with any pathology of the liver for the detection of patients with echinococcus disease, for the establishment of the topographic localization and recurrences of the pathological process.