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Myocardial calcification in a patient with end‐stage renal disease
Author(s) -
Cao Vance,
Brickner Leslea
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of hospital medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.128
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1553-5606
pISSN - 1553-5592
DOI - 10.1002/jhm.457
Subject(s) - medicine , citation , nothing , library science , philosophy , epistemology , computer science
Myocardial calcification is very rare and has been associated with metastatic calcium deposition. A 57-year-old woman with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) due to hypertension on peritoneal dialysis, coronary artery disease, mechanical valve from mitral stenosis without history of rheumatic disease, atrial fibrillation, and a positive tuberculin skin test presented with tuberculous peritonitis (culture confirmed) and calcifications of her heart. Her chest film showed a retrocardiac calcified lesion (Figure 1). Chest computed tomog-