Cardiac hydatid cyst revealed by complete heart block

Mustafa Yılmaz,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2013.037

Mustafa Yılmaz¹, Ahmet Aydın¹, Ulaş Kumbasar¹, Necla Özer², İlhan Paşaoğlu¹

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty of Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
²Department of Cardiology, Medical Faculty of Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2013.037

Cardiac hydatid cyst is an unusual disease. Although interventricular septal cysts are usually asymptomatic, in rare instances where cardiac echinococcal cysts involve the interventricular septum, they may cause symptoms related to compression of the conduction pathway such as atrioventricular (AV) block and syncopal attacks. Surgical removal of the cyst is the most favorable therapeutic method in this disease. In this article, we report a 43-year-old female case of cardiac hydatid cyst originating from interventricular septum presenting with AV block and managed by surgical removal and implantation of permanent pacemaker during the early postoperative period.

Keywords : Heart block; hydatid cyst; interventricular septum

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