TY - ECHAP
KW - Surgical Management
KW - Parasitic Diseases
AU - Karapanagiotidis GT
AU - Anastasiadis K
AB - The heart and pericardium may be affected directly or indirectly by a variety of parasites. These can be grouped into parasites that preferentially involve the myocardium and occasionally involve the pericardium (such as Trypanosomes, Toxoplasma, Trichinella), parasites that occasionally involve the pericardium or cause pancarditis (such as Echinococcus, Entamoeba histolytica, Taenia solium) and parasites that cause miscellaneous syndromes (such as Schistosoma, Dirofilaria immitis, Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, helminth, Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati, Baylisascaris procyonis, Sarcocystis). The involvement of the heart and its structures to parasitic diseases may manifest in different ways; however, the syndromes resulting from impairment of the myocardium and pericardium are the most frequent, such as myocarditis or cardiomyopathy and pericarditis or pericardial effusion. This chapter summarizes the relevant clinical picture, the diagnostic procedures and the therapeutic protocols involving both conservative treatment and surgical management of the parasitic diseases of the heart.
BT - The Surgical Management of Parasitic Diseases
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-47948-0_17
LA - eng
N2 - The heart and pericardium may be affected directly or indirectly by a variety of parasites. These can be grouped into parasites that preferentially involve the myocardium and occasionally involve the pericardium (such as Trypanosomes, Toxoplasma, Trichinella), parasites that occasionally involve the pericardium or cause pancarditis (such as Echinococcus, Entamoeba histolytica, Taenia solium) and parasites that cause miscellaneous syndromes (such as Schistosoma, Dirofilaria immitis, Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, helminth, Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati, Baylisascaris procyonis, Sarcocystis). The involvement of the heart and its structures to parasitic diseases may manifest in different ways; however, the syndromes resulting from impairment of the myocardium and pericardium are the most frequent, such as myocarditis or cardiomyopathy and pericarditis or pericardial effusion. This chapter summarizes the relevant clinical picture, the diagnostic procedures and the therapeutic protocols involving both conservative treatment and surgical management of the parasitic diseases of the heart.
PB - Springer International Publishing
PY - 2020
SN - 9783030479473
SP - 253
EP - 272
T2 - The Surgical Management of Parasitic Diseases
TI - Surgical Management of Parasitic Diseases Involving the Heart
ER -