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Secondary pleural hydatidosis: Complication of intrapulmonary echinococcosis

Lung India, 2014
Hydatid disease has a wide geographic distribution around the world. In human, the liver is the most commonly affected organ, followed by the lungs. Intrathoracic extrapulmonary locations are generally the mediastinum, pleura, pericardium and chest wall.
Walid Feki, Wajdi Ketata, Najla Bahloul, Sameh Msaad, Samy Kammoun   +4 more
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Hydatid lung disease (echinococcosis/hydatidosis).

, 2002
Two Echinococcus species may exhibit medical relevance as causative agents of pulmonary forms of echinococcosis. Most importantly, infections with Echinococcus granulosus result in "cystic hydatid disease" or "cystic echinococcosis," which affects the ...
Gottstein, Bruno, Reichen, Jürg
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PULMONARY CYSTIC ECHINOCOCCOSIS [PDF]

Chest, 2021
DANIEL GREENBERG, RAVI MANGLANI, HELENA TOMAC PAVOSEVIC, FOUZIA SHAKIL, OLEG EPELBAUM   +4 more
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Hydropneumothorax as a rare manifestation of primary pulmonary hydatid disease

Advances in Biomedical and Health Sciences
Echinococcosis, alternatively referred to as hydatid disease, is caused by the larvae of the tapeworm Echinococcus. The primary agents of human infections are Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis. The present case report pertains to an
Mamoun Mohamed Ahmed Ali, Rajesh Gupta, Mohamed Mustafa, Imad El-din Ahmed Hamad, Devdutt Nayak, Alhaitham Omar, Ahmed El-Barkouky   +6 more
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A Concomitant Intramyocardial and Pulmonary Hydatid Cyst: A Rare Case Report

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Cardiac hydatid cyst is an uncommon but potentially fatal disease. In cystic Echinococcus humans are an accidental host. Liver and lungs are the most frequently involved organs. Herein a unique case of intramyocardial hydatid cyst of left ventricle along
Harsh Sateesh Seth, Prashant Mishra, Jayant V. Khandekar, Chaitanya Raut, Chandan Kumar Ray Mohapatra, Ganesh Kumar K. Ammannaya   +5 more
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Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis complicating pulmonary cystic echinococcosis: a global systematic review

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease
Background: Human cystic echinococcosis frequently involves the lungs, and colonization of a residual cavity with Aspergillus spores can lead to chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA).
Felix Bongomin, Aayush Adhikari, Ronald Olum, Pratik Baral, Iriagbonse Iyabo Osaigbovo, Winnie Kibone, Bassey E. Ekeng, Linda Atulinda, Bethan Morgan, Shailendra Katwal, Norman van Rhijn, David W. Denning   +11 more
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Isolated right pulmonary artery discontinuity [PDF]

, 2000
Unilateral “absence” of the pulmonary artery is an uncommon malformation frequently associated with congenital heart disease. In fact, the pulmonary artery is typically discontinuous from the main pulmonary artery, not absent.
Vincent, J.A., Epstein, M.L., Turner, Daniel   +2 more
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Capitonnage Results in Low Postoperative Morbidity in the Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Echinococcosis

, 2012
Background. The main surgical techniques in the treatment of pulmonary echinococcosis are cystotomy alone, cystotomy and capitonnage, enucleation, and pericystectomy. Controversy persists regarding the selection of surgical technique.
Yaldiz, Demet, Yaldiz, Sadik, Gursoy, Soner, Ucvet, Ahmet, Kaya, Seyda   +4 more
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A 75-year-old Woman with Multiple Cavitating Lung Nodules

Journal of Advanced Lung Health
Cavitating lung nodules of infectious origin can result from a variety of etiologies, including tuberculosis, fungal infections, echinococcosis, and septic emboli.
Shanmukha Priya Satuluri, Rakesh Kodati, Navatha Vangala, Narendra Kumar Narahari   +3 more
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Intracoronary Hydatid Cyst Resulted in Coronary Artery Disease in a Young Patient

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Among all cystic echinococcosis cases, only 0.5%-2% exhibit a cardiac involvement. Only 10% of these become symptomatic. Considering the long time interval between the start of infestation and symptoms to occur, it is hard to diagnose cystic ...
Unsal Vural, Ahmet Arif Aglar, İlyas Kayacioglu   +2 more
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