Pulmonary hydatid disease

Pulmonary hydatid disease.

Pulmonary hydatid disease is a particular radiological diagnostic problem when the hydatid is small, single, and symptomless, so that distinction must be made from the numerous other causes of isolated, peripheral pulmonary lesions. The technique of delivery of a pulmonary hydatid cyst, different from the management of other single peripheral lesions, makes preoperative recognition of hydatid d...

The treatment of pulmonary hydatid disease.

There is at present no medical treatment for hydatid cysts, wherever they may be situated. Some, especially in the liver, die and become harmless calcified masses. Some in the lung may be completely coughed up without the occurrence of complications, and perfect cure may follow. Dew and Devd, among others, believe that more people than we know of cough up their cysts and never seek medical advi...

Pulmonary hydatid cyst in HIV-1 disease.

A 36-year-old male patient, a known case of retroviral disease, presented with clinical features suggestive of pneumonia and was found to have bilateral lower zone lung consolidation which on resolution showed a cystic change on the chest radiograph. A subsequent CT scan revealed the true nature of these cysts to be ruptured pulmonary hydatid cysts showing a 'water lily sign'. The rare associat...

Pulmonary hydatid disease in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey

Pulmonary hydatid cyst and successful renal transplantation

  Abstract   Hydatid cysts are endemic hooknoses in Iran. It may involve various organs of   body. Liver is involved in 80% and lung in 10- 15%of cases. 25% of pulmonary hydatid   cyst is bilateral. Before any transplantations eradication of infection is necessary.   In a 26-year old man with renal failure referred for kidney transplantation. On   initial preoperative evaluation of this patient...