Calcified Cardiac Mass Compressing Coronary Artery

Giant right coronary artery aneurysms presenting as a cardiac mass

INTRODUCTION Coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) is defined as coronary dilatation which exceeds the diameter of the normal adjacent artery segments or the diameter of the patient's largest coronary artery by 1.5 times. The incidence of giant CAA is difficult to be determined, since only few reports have been described in the literature. METHODS AND RESULTS A 65-year-old man was referred to our ho...

[A calcified thoracic mass].

Idiopathic calcified myocardial mass.

Patterson, D., Gibson, D., Gomes, R., McDonald, L., Olsen, E., Parker, J.; and Ross; D. (1974). Thorax, 29, 589-594. Idiopathic calcified myocardial mass. Myocardial calcification can be subdivided into three groups-metastatic, dystrophic or an extension inwards from the pericardium. This case in which the calcified myocardial mass was initially delineated by radiography and by echocardiography...

A calcified mass.

To cite: Mosayebi Z, Bahreini M, Mirfazaelian H, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015212675 DESCRIPTION A 34-year-old woman presented to the emergency department, with a 1-year history of nonproductive cough and pleuritic chest pain. She had no upper respiratory tract symptoms, fever, sweating, radicular pain or weight loss. There was no abn...

Cardiac calcified amorphous tumour

Calcified amorphous tumour (CAT) is an unusual nonneoplastic cardiac mass that may mimic malignant tumour of the heart (1) or vegetation (2). We report a 43-year-old female with type 1 diabetes and end-stage diabetic kidney disease on haemodialysis, who underwent transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) in the setting of pyrexia and negative blood cultures. No valve-related vegetation was identi...