Diffuse left ventricular myocardial calcification in the setting of sepsis on CT imaging.
We describe a 58-year-old man with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who developed diffuse left ventricular myocardial calcification during an episode of sepsis seen at computed tomographic imaging.
Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Stephanie
S
Simonson
Wallace T
WT
Miller
Alexander
A
Perl
Drew A
DA
Torigian
D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000150:complications; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology