Cerebral and Cardiac Locations of Hydatid Cyst in A Pregnant Case Presenting With Acute Stroke and MR Images Like Intracranial Tumor

Abstract

Heart and brain involvement in a case is very rare in echinococcus cysts disease. A 23 year old, 28 weeks pregnant women admitted with acute right hemihypoestesia and headache to the emergency department. Venous sinuse thrombosis was the initial diagnosis of the patient until the further investigations were performed. But the MRI scans and ECO revealed hydatic cyst. Serological tests for echinococcosis were positive. This case is worthfull with the right atrial and brain involvement of echinococcosis clinic presenting as a cerebral venous thrombosis in pregnancy and different cranial MR imagines like intracranial tumor.