[T2]

The surgeons get an unexpected surprise, when operating on what they think is a tumor on a human heart.

[bernard]

heart worms??

[choochie]

It looks like flukes.

[neilwatt]

Does anybody know what that was?

[rheedork]

Huh? At first I thought that was a condom. What was that?

[Lyndsay]

that made my heart hurt. ouch. looked like big white idk wtf aliens?

[vagabond]

Yeah, that one thing looked like a giant liver fluke. Wonder if the patient survived? Great vid!

[mintycbo]

Not sure if it was better as a tumor or worse as a parasite? or vice-versa?

[kellyhound]

nasty fuckers.

The background is those - the tumour on heart has been found out, operation is appointed. Shooting was initially conducted for training students of russian medical institute. About any helminths there was no also a speech. That in "tumour" there lives family of tapeworms (Diphyllobothrium latum) became known only on a course of operation.

How do tapeworms get into the heart?

Here is simple tapeworm migration scheme: intestine - a liver - the right heart - a lung - a trachea - a throat - then leave human body.

Actually tapeworm larva follow instinct, aspire to be distributed in regular intervals in an organism and take root into human bodies while migration. It can lead to very serious changes: a hepatites, a cirrhosis of a liver, regeneration of cells of a liver, changes in a cardiac musle (myocardium), bronchites, pneumonias, tonsillitises, antritises, otitises and many other things to diseases.

So larva not only settle in those organs of an organism on which pass, but also get into them and migrate on different channels, hurt vital body organs.

[vagabond]

^ Well, that makes it crystal clear!