Mitral regurgitation due to caseous calcification of the mitral annulus: two case reports

Caseous calcification is a rare variant of mitral annular calcification, occurring in about 0.06% of echocardiographic studies performed. It is usually a benign lesion, but it should be differentiated by abscess and tumors. Echocardiography is the most sensitive method to identify caseous calcificat...

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Autores principales: Marcì, Marcello, Lo Jacono, Francesca
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2642793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-95
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Lo Jacono, Francesca
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description Caseous calcification is a rare variant of mitral annular calcification, occurring in about 0.06% of echocardiographic studies performed. It is usually a benign lesion, but it should be differentiated by abscess and tumors. Echocardiography is the most sensitive method to identify caseous calcification which appears typically as a round, calcified mass with an echo-lucent, liquid-like inner part.
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spelling pubmed-26427932009-02-14 Mitral regurgitation due to caseous calcification of the mitral annulus: two case reports Marcì, Marcello Lo Jacono, Francesca Cases J Case Report Caseous calcification is a rare variant of mitral annular calcification, occurring in about 0.06% of echocardiographic studies performed. It is usually a benign lesion, but it should be differentiated by abscess and tumors. Echocardiography is the most sensitive method to identify caseous calcification which appears typically as a round, calcified mass with an echo-lucent, liquid-like inner part. BioMed Central 2009-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2642793/ /pubmed/19178692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-95 Text en Copyright ©2009 Marcì and Lo Jacono; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mitral regurgitation due to caseous calcification of the mitral annulus: two case reports
title Mitral regurgitation due to caseous calcification of the mitral annulus: two case reports
title_full Mitral regurgitation due to caseous calcification of the mitral annulus: two case reports
title_fullStr Mitral regurgitation due to caseous calcification of the mitral annulus: two case reports
title_full_unstemmed Mitral regurgitation due to caseous calcification of the mitral annulus: two case reports
title_short Mitral regurgitation due to caseous calcification of the mitral annulus: two case reports
title_sort mitral regurgitation due to caseous calcification of the mitral annulus: two case reports
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2642793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-95
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