A Heart Set in Stone: A Case of Extensive Cardiac Calcification

Massive endocardial calcification is a rare entity. We describe a rare disease endomyocardial fibrosis associated with massive calcification of the left ventricle suspected on a chest X-ray and confirmed by echocardiography and computed tomography in an 18-year-old female presenting with breathlessn...

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Autores principales: Khanna, Roopali, Kapoor, Aditya, Soni, Neetu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5105219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27867457
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.192557
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description Massive endocardial calcification is a rare entity. We describe a rare disease endomyocardial fibrosis associated with massive calcification of the left ventricle suspected on a chest X-ray and confirmed by echocardiography and computed tomography in an 18-year-old female presenting with breathlessness and congestive heart failure.
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spelling pubmed-51052192016-11-18 A Heart Set in Stone: A Case of Extensive Cardiac Calcification Khanna, Roopali Kapoor, Aditya Soni, Neetu Heart Views Case Report Massive endocardial calcification is a rare entity. We describe a rare disease endomyocardial fibrosis associated with massive calcification of the left ventricle suspected on a chest X-ray and confirmed by echocardiography and computed tomography in an 18-year-old female presenting with breathlessness and congestive heart failure. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5105219/ /pubmed/27867457 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.192557 Text en Copyright: © Gulf Heart Association 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_short A Heart Set in Stone: A Case of Extensive Cardiac Calcification
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