Eberly Matthew D, Soh Eugene K, Bannister Sean P, Tavaf-Motamen Houman, Scott John S
Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2008 Apr;27(4):369-71. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318163d316.
Cardiac cysticercosis is a rare and typically asymptomatic infection. We report a case of a young man from Cameroon with a left ventricular cyst discovered during a screening echocardiogram. Computed tomography and plain films did not reveal additional cysts. Serology was negative. The patient had the cyst surgically removed for suspected echinococcosis. Sectioning demonstrated a cysticercus. The literature on cardiac cysticercosis is reviewed.
