Hydatid cysts of the pulmonary artery

Selim Bakan,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2016.11711

Selim Bakan¹, Sedat Kandemirli¹, Onur Yıldırım¹, Ezel Ersen², Mehmet Yanartaş³, Erdal Taşçı⁴, Bedrettin Yıldızeli⁵, Canan Akman¹

¹Departments of Radiology, İstanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey
²Departments of Thoracic Surgery, İstanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey
³Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kartal Koşuyolu Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
⁴Departments of Thoracic Surgery, Kartal Koşuyolu Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
⁵Departments of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Faculty of Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2016.11711

Hydatid cyst located in the pulmonary artery is rare. The cause is usually rupture of an intracardiac cyst or dissemination from a hepatic focus either spontaneously or secondary to surgery. In this article, we report a 32-yearold patient with a history of hepatic and pulmonary hydatid cyst resection, presenting with multiple hydatid cysts located in the right pulmonary artery, and complaints of dyspnea and hemoptysis.

Keywords : Computed tomography; hydatid cyst; magnetic resonance imaging; pulmonary artery cyst

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