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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 53, 328-329, Copyright © 1992 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Cardiac echinococcosis: cyst removal in a beating heart

GJ Rossouw, CJ Knott-Craig and PE Erasmus
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tygerberg Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

A 17-year-old asymptomatic boy from a sheep farm had a systolic murmur on routine examination. The diagnosis of Echinococcus cyst in the right ventricular outflow tract was made by echocardiography. The cyst was removed with success with the patient on cardiopulmonary bypass with a beating heart.

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