Eighteen-year experience with echinococcosus of the heart: Clinical and echocardiographic features in 14 patients

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 91, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 145-151

  Ben Hamda, Khaldoun ^a   Maatouk, Faouzi ^a   Ben Farhat, Mohamed ^a   Betbout, Fethi ^a   Gamra, Habib ^a   Addad, Faouzi ^a   Fatima, Amorri ^a   Abdellaoui, Mohamed ^a   Dridi, Zohra ^a   Hendiri, Taoufik ^a  

^a FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Cardiac cysts; Echinococcosus; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX PAIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHILD; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, PULMONARY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUNISIA;

EID: 12144291307     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5273(03)00032-9     Document Type: Article

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