[Echinococcosis of the heart].

From 1971 through 1987 six patients with echinococcus of the hear have been operated. In four of them the hydatid cyst was localized in the right portion of the heart and in two in the left ventricle. Left thoracotomy was used for the operation of the former four patients, whereas the hydatid cysts localized in the left ventricle were operated under bypass circulation.