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DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-3401994
Images in Aortic Disease
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Abdominal Aortic Occlusion by Hydatid Cysts

Uma Debi
1   Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
,
Vikas Bhatia 
1   Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
,
M.S. Sandhu
1   Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
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15 April 2018

04 November 2019

Publication Date:
29 June 2020 (online)

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Abstract

Hydatid disease is a parasitic infestation caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus. It can infest any part of the body; however, aortic hydatid disease is rare. Involvement of the abdominal aorta is usually due to embolization from cardiac hydatid cysts or direct invasion and can be present at intravascular or intramural locations. Aortic hydatid disease may present with fatal complications, such as anaphylaxis, pseudoaneurysm formation, systemic embolism, and arterial occlusion.

Keywords

hydatid - aorta - albendazole - MRI

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The article is Institute Ethical Committee approved.


 

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