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Left atrial mobile hydatid cyst mimicking left atrial myxoma and mitral stenosis and causing heart failure and arrhythmia

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Cardiac hydatid cysts are very rare in hydatid cyst disease. We report herein a case of hydatid cyst mimicking left atrial myxoma. A 78-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaint of dyspnea and signs pulmonary edema and mitral stenosis. Echocardiography showed left atrial mobile, mostly solid mass with wall calcifications moving towards the orifice of the mitral valve. We also found loculated giant hepatic and right pulmonary cysts. We aimed to␣report this case because of mimicking mitral stenosis and left atrial myxoma and causing heart failure.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Usak State Hospital, Ismetpasa Caddesi 75/1, 64100, Usak, Turkey

    Ismail Biyik & Oktay Ergene

  2. Department of Chest Disease, Usak State Hospital, Usak, Turkey

    Seval Acar

  3. Department of Cardiology Clinics, Atatürk Education and Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey

    Oktay Ergene

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Biyik, I., Acar, S. & Ergene, O. Left atrial mobile hydatid cyst mimicking left atrial myxoma and mitral stenosis and causing heart failure and arrhythmia. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 23, 193–195 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-006-9132-5

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