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ArticleEuropean heart journal. Case reports2020

Case report: Metastatic cardiac calcifications in a patient with a history of rickets.

Matias Lopez Avecilla, Mariana Corneli, Gisela Killinger, Carlos Rodriguez Correa

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Article in European heart journal. Case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Matias Lopez AvecillaDepartamento de Diagnóstico por Imágenes en Cardiología, Centro Diagnóstico Dr Enrique Rossi, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0003-4815-9582
Mariana CorneliDepartamento de Diagnóstico por Imágenes en Cardiología, Centro Diagnóstico Dr Enrique Rossi, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0003-1725-5168
Gisela KillingerDepartamento de Diagnóstico por Imágenes en Cardiología, Centro Diagnóstico Dr Enrique Rossi, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Carlos Rodriguez CorreaDepartamento de Diagnóstico por Imágenes en Cardiología, Centro Diagnóstico Dr Enrique Rossi, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0003-4491-9687

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMetastatic cardiac calcifications are often seen in patients with renal failure and dialysis associated with vascular calcification and calcifications in other organs. There is little to no evidence of metastatic cardiac calcification in patients with a history of rickets. CASE SUMMARY: A 40-year-old patient with a history of rickets treated in infancy and no personal history of cardiovascular or renal disease came for a periodical examination. Transthoracic echocardiogram showed an important calcification in the mitral annulus and the mitro-aortic junction. Computed tomography (CT) showed marked calcification affecting the heart fibrous skeleton. Coronary arteries were not affected. DISCUSSION: Distribution of heart calcification seen both with echocardiography and CT is important to report so they can be identified as dystrophic or metastatic. These two have different aetiologies so the description may help identify the possible cause.

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Case reportComputed tomographyEchocardiographyMetastatic cardiac calcificationMitro-aortic junctionRickets

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