Solano Remírez M, Urbieta Echezarreta M A, Alvarez Frías M T, González Arencibia C, Llorente Díaz B
Medicina Interna, Hospital de Navarra, Pamplona.
An Med Interna. 2005 Jul;22(7):326-8.
We present the case of a woman with no previous clinical history of disease, that debuted with acute heart failure with symptoms of cardiac tamponade from hydatic pericarditis as a result of a fistula across the diaphragm secondary to a hydatidic cyst rupture in the liver. Cardiac hydatidosis is rare with an incidence in some series between 0.2-2% in humans infested with Echinococcus, affectation of the pericardia being rare. For this reason we present a revision of its pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis and recommended treatment.
