We herein present a 32-year-old Lebanese woman with a history of cardiac hydatid cyst presenting with headache, confusion, and right arm clumsiness. A CT of the head showed hemorrhagic infarct of the left fronto-parietal lobe. Eleven months later, the subsequent development of hydatid cysts within the necrotic area of the infracted hemisphere suggested a cerebral hydatid embolism of cardiac ori...

introduction: to present our experience about the safety of conservative management in asymptomatic and non-complicated hepatic hydatid cyst in pregnancy.   methods: seven pregnant patients with hepatic hydatid cysts as an incidental finding in routine obstetrical ultrasonography were referred to our center during 2001 to 2008. three patients were visited in the second and the rest in the third...

the infection of food animals to hydatid cyst is a concern from economic and public health stand points. in this survey, the prevalence of hydatid cysts was studied in 547 buffaloes slaughtered at the slaughterhouse in urmia. samples from 58 cases (10. 6%) were infected to hydatid cysts. the infection rates of lung and liver were 45 cases (77. 5%) and 37 cases (63. 7%), respectively, while each...

Hydatid antigen was demonstrated for the first time in the urine of patients with hydatid disease by countercurrent immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP). The antigen was detected in the concentrated urine of 7 of 16 (43.75% positive) patients with surgically confirmed hydatid disease, 4 of 10 (40% positive) patients with ultrasound-proven hydatid disease (daughter cysts or prominent septation and hydat...

A tailgut cyst is a rare developmental lesion and usually is located in the retrorectal or presacral space. Extrahepatic hydatid disease has been reported in several locations including the pelvis and it often poses a diagnostic challenge. There are very few reported cases of primary perineal hydatid cysts. We present the multimodality imaging findings of a tailgut cyst and concurrent perineal ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of percutaneous drainage on liver hydatid cysts. DESIGN A retrospective case study. SETTING Department of Surgery, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey. PATIENTS Forty-five patients with 83 liver hydatid cysts (types I and II according to the classification of Gharbi and colleagues) followed up for a mean of 30 months (range from 14 to 36 months). INTERVE...

Introduction: Hydatid cyst is among parasitic diseases common between man and domestic animals, as well as domestic and non domestic carnivorous animals. This disease causes organ damage and injuries in human, and sometimes leads to death. This study aims at assessment of secondary hydatid cyst growth in laboratory animals and determination of their sensitivity. Materials and Methods: The Pr...

OBJECTIVE Over the world, hydatidosis is endemic in many countries. It is more prevalent in Turkey. We came across with concomitant hydatidosis of the lung and liver and reviewed the management. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a prospective study that was carried out in the Government Medical College and Hospital, sector-32, Chandigarh, India, between 2004 and 2010, in the Department of Surgery....

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the performance of Antigen B (AgB) isolated from different Echinococcusgranulosus intermediate hosts and from different cyst locations for immunodiagnosis of human cystic echinococcosis (CE). METHODS Hydatid cyst fluids were collected from lung and liver cysts of sheep, liver cysts of goats, lung cysts of camels and cattle, and liver cysts of hum...

Six cases of splenic cysts, removed surgically in the Royal Free Hospital during the last 10 years, are presented. These include a hydatid cyst, two primary, epithelium lined, and three secondary, non-epithelium lined cysts. The histology, aetiology, symptomatology, diagnosis, treatment and complications of splenic cysts are discussed.