Primitive cardiac sarcomas: about 2 cases.

Background: the cardiac sarcomas, although very rare, represent the quasi-totality of the primitive sly tumors of the heart

Aim: it is about a retrospective study of two cases of cardiac sarcomas operated in Sahloul university hospital of Sousse.

Cases: it is about a woman and a man: The respective ages were 22 and 45 years. The clinical pattern of the patients was polymorphic and the diagnosis put by cardiac echography.

[Cor triatriatum: of six operated patients report].

Six cases of cortriatriatum operated between January 1990 and April 2004. Their ages ranged from 3 months to 22 years. Associated lesions are present in 4 patients.

[Cardio-pericardial hydatid cyst. Report of 19 cases].

From May 1991 to July 2003, 19 patients (9 men and 10 women), of 30 years average age were operated in our department service for surgical cure of cardio-pericardial hydatid cysts. The TEE constitutes the examination of choice in the cardio-pericardial diagnosis of hydatid cyst. The surgery under CPB is the technique of choice, we practiced used 15 times.