Diffuse left ventricular myocardial calcification in the setting of sepsis on CT imaging

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 343-345

  Simonson, Stephanie ^a   Miller Jr , Wallace T ^a   Perl, Alexander ^a   Torigian, Drew A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Myocardial calcification; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIUM; CREATINE KINASE; DAUNORUBICIN; DOBUTAMINE; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; PHOSPHATE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TROPONIN I; VASOPRESSIN; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEPATIC TRANSAMMONITIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEFT VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIAL CALCIFICATION; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REMISSION; SEPSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UREMIA;

CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; SEPSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 36649007711     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RTI.0b013e31806ad289     Document Type: Article

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