Surgical treatment of isolated cardiac echinococciasis: report of five cases.

Objective: Cardiac echinococcosis is a rare pathology and in about half of cases it is not accompanied by other organs involvement. We report on our experience of surgical treatment of isolated cardiac echinococcosis (ICE).

Methods: Among 5 patients with ICE operated in our clinic 1 had pericardial and epicardial involvement, 1 patient had the single cyst in the apicolateral wall of the left ventricle and 3 patients had singular cysts of interventricular septum.

[The first experience with the treatment of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome].

Some experience in surgical management of the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is generalized. Operations were performed on 7 patients (2 males and 5 females) whose ages ranged from 17 to 53 years. Endocardial electrophysiological examination and intraoperative mapping were the main diagnostic methods.