Iranian Biomedical Journal

other Chest Pain As a Sign of Cardiac Cystic Echinococcosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis <div style="text-align: justify;">Introduction: Human echinococcosis (CE) is a prevailing health issue in underdeveloped and developing nations. Cardiac involvement is a moderately infrequent manifestation of Echinococcus infection. The present study aimed to determine the rate of chest pain as a symptom of cardiac CE. Search Strategy: This study included clinical studies reporting the proportion of cardiac EC patients with chest pain. Reviews, letters, preclinical studies, conference abstracts, and non-English papers were not included. A systematic search was performed in the PubMed and Scopus databases, and the risk of bias in the included studies was assessed using the JBI Case Series checklist. Meta-analysis was performed using the Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Third Edition (CMA3). Results: The rate of chest pain in patients with cardiac CE was reported in 23 out of 3,985 studies. The rates were 41.5% (95% CI: 36.1%-47.0%) and 43.2% (95% CI: 35.1%-51.7%) based on the finite element method and the rapid-eye-movement analysis, respectively. Heterogeneity was borderline (I2: 49.07%; p value for heterogeneity = 0.004). Therefore, the results of both models were presented. Conclusion and Discussion: Cardiac involvement of CE can be presented with chest pain, and it should be considered in suspected patients.</div> <img alt="" src="./files/site1/images/888.jpg" style="width: 1000px; height: 36px;" > Chest pain, Echinococcosis, Systematic review 124 124 http://ibj.pasteur.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-4696-128&slc_lang=other&sid=1 Pouriya Golmohammadi Khankandi No Erfan Banisefid No Kosar Baghernezhad No Rasa Beheshti No Sina Hamzezadeh No Soheil Nemati No Zahra Samadifar No Hamid Owaysee No Elnaz Javanshir Yes Amirreza Naseri No