CTICases ← All cases

Myocardial calcification

Imaging findings

Serial chest CT scans show rapidly progressive, dense calcification of the left ventricular myocardium developing over a few days in a patient with pancreatitis, sepsis, and transient acute renal failure.

Key takeaways

Rapid myocardial calcification is a rare, highly dramatic condition associated with severe sepsis, myocardial injury, and transient renal failure. It represents acute dystrophic calcification of injured myocytes and can occur diffusely throughout the left ventricle.

AI-assisted summary — may contain errors. Verify against the source video. Learn more

More from this webinar

See all cases from December 27, 2018 →

Related Metabolic cases

Browse all Metabolic cases →