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Year : 2013 | Volume
: 14 | Issue : 1 | Page : 36--37
Incidental detection of asymptomatic intrapericardial calcified hydatid cyst
Nagaraja Moorthy1, Sudeep Kumar1, Hira Lal2, Pravin K Goel1, 1 Department of Cardiology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India 2 Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
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Pravin K Goel Department of Cardiology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014 India
How to cite this article:
Moorthy N, Kumar S, Lal H, Goel PK. Incidental detection of asymptomatic intrapericardial calcified hydatid cyst.Heart Views 2013;14:36-37
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Moorthy N, Kumar S, Lal H, Goel PK. Incidental detection of asymptomatic intrapericardial calcified hydatid cyst. Heart Views [serial online] 2013 [cited 2019 Dec 11 ];14:36-37
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Cardiac hydatid cyst is a rare condition, accounting for only 0.5-2% of all hydatid infestations. [1],[2] Fluoroscopy, coronary angiography, left ventricular angiography and CT scan of a 67-year-old diabetic, hypertensive and chronic stable angina patient showed incidental calcified cyst attached to heart [[Figure 1], Video 1]. On performing left ventricular (LV) angiography, a mass was found attached to the posterior aspect of left ventricle at the atrioventricular groove through a peduncle [[Figure 2], Video 2]. Later, 64-slice multidetector computed tomography showed a calcified cyst with multiple cystic locules within it, confirming the diagnosis of calcified hydatid cyst [Figure 3] and [Figure 4]. The cyst was intrapericardial in location with attachment to the atrioventricular groove near the crux. He was advised coronary artery bypass graft surgery with excision of the cyst.{Figure 1}{Figure 2}{Figure 3}{Figure 4}
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