Caseous calcification of the mitral annulus: Unusual case of spontaneous resolution

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 510-513

  Gramenzi, Silvana ^a,b   Mazzola, Anna Alice ^a   Tagliaferri, Beatrice ^a   Protasoni, Giuseppe ^a   Brusoni, Denise ^a   D'Aloya, Gaetana ^a   Brusoni, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Caseous calcification; Echocardiography; Liquefaction; Mitral valve

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; ERYTHROPOIETIN; INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOTOMY; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MITRAL ANNULUS CASEOUS CALCIFICATION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE;

EID: 21644453937     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.04056.x     Document Type: Article

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