A rare parasite can quietly grow inside the heart, imitating everyday cardiac symptoms until it becomes deadly. Few ...

Good news from Delhi where a team of doctors saves the life of a patient with a ruptured hydatid cyst through cryoprobe. The surgery was risk-taking due to the location and condition of the cyst. This ...

Cystic echinococcosis (Hydatid Disease) represents an emerging illness found in humans and livestock that arises as a result of eating infective eggs of the cestode parasite Echinococcus granulosus – ...

A research team from Saudi Arabia determined the efficacy and success of percutaneous aspiration irrigation and re-aspiration (PAIR) in the management of hepatic hydatidosis. They found that PAIR ...

Hydatid cyst equivalent to the size of a tennis ball was removed from the right lung of a 45-year-old woman using a cryoprobe, without conducting an open chest surgery in India. Cryoprobe is a ...

The case of a 15-year-old boy presenting with a large hydatid cyst causing cough and progressive dyspnea is reported. The patient underwent a diagnostic thorocentesis with subsequent respiratory ...

Study design: Review article on spinal involvement of hydatid disease. Objectives: A better understanding of this rare but clinically challenging disease is intended. An overview of the epidemiology, ...

Dr K.K. Sahu and Dr R. Jain said the echinococcus grandulosus (worm) enters the human body from dogs. The worm takes a life cycle in two hosts: dog and goat/sheep. Generally, dogs or foxes are the ...

A 12-year-old patient received a new lease of life after a huge hydatid cyst that removed from his right lung. The boy was suffering from abdominal pain, coughing He was hospitalized at the paediatric ...

Due Warning: Not for the squeamish. Here at Table of Malcontents, we love mind-altering brain parasites, particularly the ones that turn girls into sex kittens and men into slavering, lust-crazed ...