Endomyocardial nodular calcification as a cause of heart failure

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Segura, Ana Maria ^a   Radovancevic, Rajko ^a   Connelly, John H ^a   Loyalka, Pranav ^a   Gregoric, Igor D ^a   Buja, L Maximillian ^a  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcification; Heart failure; Heart transplantation; Myocardium

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CELL VACUOLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMYOCARDIAL NODULAR CALCIFICATION; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTIOCYTE; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBUS;

CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, RESTRICTIVE; GRANULOMA; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052509290     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: 18791336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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