Echinococcosis of the heart: Clinical and echocardiographic features in 12 patients

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-41

  Bouraoui, Hatem ^a   Trimeche, Besma ^a   Mahdhaoui, Abdallah ^a   Majdoub, Amine ^a   Zaaraoui, Jilani ^a   Hajri Ernez, Samia ^a   Gouider, Jeridi ^a   Ammar, Habib ^a  

^a FARHAT HACHED HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Hydatid cyst of the heart; Transoesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; HYDATID CYST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCHOOL CHILD; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; T WAVE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COHORT STUDIES; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 17944365459     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.60.1.2005047     Document Type: Article

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