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Cardiac Parasitic Infection in Trichinellosis Associated with Right Ventricle Outflow Tract Obstruction

  • Bang, Seung Ho;Park, Jae Bum;Chee, Hyun Keun;Kim, Jun Seok;Ko, Sung Min;Kim, Wan Seop;Shin, Je Kyoun
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.47 no.2
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    • pp.145-148
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    • 2014
  • Here, we present a rare case of cardiac parasitic infection found in an adult female patient who had the symptoms of dyspnea upon exertion. She was diagnosed with a double-chambered right ventricle due to infundibular hypertrophy confirmed by transthoracic echocardiography and cardiac computed tomography. We performed surgery of infundibulectomy around the pulmonary valve. In the end, histopathological findings of the resected infundibular muscle demonstrated trichinellosis, a type of roundworm infection.