Surgical Management and Outcomes of Cardiac and Great Vessels Echinococcosis: A 16-Year Experience.

Background: Cardiac involvement is an uncommon presentation of hydatid disease. In this study, we aim to analyze the experience of surgical treatment of cardiac and great vessels echinococcosis in our cardiovascular and thoracic surgery department.

Methods: Through a 16-year period, from 2000 to 2015, 27 patients underwent surgery for cardiac and great vessels hydatid disease.

Successful Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for the Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock due to Scorpion Envenomation.

. The occurrence of a cardiogenic shock is a rare presentation after scorpion envenomation. The treatment includes classically the use of inotropes and specific vasodilators.

[Right ventricular myxoma in a child: an uncommon presentation].

The right ventricle is an uncommon location for cardiac myxoma. Its most common complications are pulmonary embolism and obstruction due to pulmonary valve tumor. We report the case of a 11-year old child with repetitive syncopes admitted to Cardiology ward.

[Acute pulmonic valve endocarditis].

Right heart endocarditis mainly affects tricuspid valve, especially in drug users. Isolated pulmonary valve infection is rare. We here report the case of a 32-year old young woman whose diagnosis of community-acquired pulmonary valve endocarditis was confirmed.