A CASE OF HEART PSEUDO-TUMOR BY TAPEWORM IN RIGHT VENTRICLE – SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Phạm Hữu Lư1,2,, Hoàng Trọng Hải2, Dương Hoàng Long2, Phan Thùy Chi1,2, Nguyễn Tùng Sơn2, Nguyễn Sỹ Lánh2, Phạm Hữu Khuyên2, Phùng Duy Hồng Sơn2, Khổng Tiến Bình2, Phạm Tiến Quân2, Nguyễn Hữu Ước1,2
1 Hanoi Medical University
2 Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital

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Introduction: Parasitic disease is a common disease in tropical countries. This disease can have damage to many organs in the body including the heart. The heart is an organ that can be affected directly or indirectly, the disease can manifest in the myocardium or pericardium. In the literature, there are a number of articles describing heart damage caused by parasites, but only clinical reports of parasitic infections, including heart disease caused by pork tapeworms, are reported. At Viet Duc University Hospital: We announce that a rare clinical case of pork tapeworm infection in the right ventricle has been diagnosed and treated. Research method: Describe the clinical case about clinical symptoms, subclinical and management attitude for this type of lesion. Clinical case: A 51-year-old female patient, admitted to the hospital by routine physical examination, discovered an interventricular septal tumor in the right ventricular chamber. Biopsy had complications of myocardial perforation, the patient was indicated for emergency cardiopulmonary surgery, treatment of right ventricular wall perforation damage, myocardial tumor resection sent for pathology, the result was a pork tapeworm. Conclusion: Heart disease caused by tapeworms is rare but possible and should be considered when diagnosing a myocardial tumor. Preoperative diagnosis by echocardiography, magnetic resonance, serological tests.

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