Pericardial mesothelioma.

The case of a 44-year old man, never exposed to asbestos, who died from a pericardial mesothelioma is described. The diagnosis was made by surgical examination. Two weak transient episodes of amelioration, the first accomplished with pronison administration and the other one by radiotherapy, were registered.

[Echinococcosis of the heart].

Although echinococcosis in different parts of the world and also in some sheep raising regions of our country belongs to a pretty frequent parasitary entity, the localisation of hydatid cyst in cardiac muscle is relatively rare: according to different authors it amounts only to 0,02-2% of all the echinococcoses. Heyat and al. in their cummulative world statistic up to 1971 collected only 118 surgically treated cases.