Caseous Intracardiac Calcification: A Diagnostic Enigma

Intramyocardial calcification is a rare phenomenon often only discovered on postmortem. We describe the case of a healthy 69-year-old lady diagnosed with idiopathic caseous intracardiac calcification extending from the mitral valve annulus. We present high-quality images and propose an investigatory...

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Autores principales: Findlay, Simon G., Child, Nicholas M., Muir, Douglas F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6487139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6707690
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description Intramyocardial calcification is a rare phenomenon often only discovered on postmortem. We describe the case of a healthy 69-year-old lady diagnosed with idiopathic caseous intracardiac calcification extending from the mitral valve annulus. We present high-quality images and propose an investigatory template for future cases.
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spelling pubmed-64871392019-05-20 Caseous Intracardiac Calcification: A Diagnostic Enigma Findlay, Simon G. Child, Nicholas M. Muir, Douglas F. Case Rep Cardiol Case Report Intramyocardial calcification is a rare phenomenon often only discovered on postmortem. We describe the case of a healthy 69-year-old lady diagnosed with idiopathic caseous intracardiac calcification extending from the mitral valve annulus. We present high-quality images and propose an investigatory template for future cases. Hindawi 2019-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6487139/ /pubmed/31110822 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/6707690 Text en Copyright © 2019 Simon G. Findlay et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Caseous Intracardiac Calcification: A Diagnostic Enigma
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title_short Caseous Intracardiac Calcification: A Diagnostic Enigma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6487139/
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