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Published on: August 28, 2018
Porcelain heart: a case of massive myocardial calcification
Dursun Aras1, Serkan Topaloglu, Burcu Demirkan
1Department of Cardiology, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ballibaba sokak. No:52/3, Kucukesat, 06700 Ankara, Turkey. sevgidursun06@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Reports of massive myocardial calcification are limited mainly to case reports and this type intracardiac calcifications have been usually identified postmortem. We present a very interesting case of massive calcification of the left ventricular myocardium, interventricular and interatrial septae causing restrictive physiology and coronary artery obstruction in a 46-year-old Turkish woman. The diagnosis of myocardial calcification was suspected from chest X-ray and confirmed with computerized tomography and cardiac catheterization. The findings of the chest computed tomography were very similar to those previously reported cases of endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) with massive calcification of the left ventricle.
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