Intraventricular Septal Echinococcosis

Cerebral intraventricular echinococcosis in an adult

BACKGROUND Echinococcosis in humans occurs as a result of infection by the larval stages of taeniid cestodes of the genus echinococcus. Intracranial hydatid cysts usually develop at an intraparenchymal site. Hydatid cyst within the cerebral ventricle is quite unusual. METHODS We reviewed the literature on adult intraventricular hydatid cyst and found case reports mainly in children with an on...

Giant left ventricular aneurysm and intraventricular septal defect after silent myocardial infarction.

described by John Hunter in 1757. Cooley and associates reported the first resection under cardiopulmonary bypass in 1958. Since then many surgeons have examined different methods of repairing left ventricular aneurysms in an effort to improve postoperative left ventricular function and long-term survival rates, and to provide symptomatic relief. An important determinant of operative and long-t...

Improvement in Diastolic Intraventricular Pressure Gradients in Patients With Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy After Ethanol Septal Reduction

Improvement in diastolic intraventricular pressure gradients in patients with HOCM after ethanol septal reduction.

We sought to validate measurement of intraventricular pressure gradients (IVPG) and analyze their change in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) after ethanol septal reduction (ESR). Quantitative analysis of color M-mode Doppler (CMM) images may be used to estimate diastolic IVPG noninvasively. Noninvasive IVPG measurement was validated in 10 patients undergoing surgical...

Studies on Echinococcosis : Ii. Echinococcosis in Japan