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.
Simonson
Stephanie
S
Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Miller
Wallace T
WT
Perl
Alexander
A
Torigian
Drew A
DA
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