Argentine Cardiology Journal, Vol 78, no.4, January 1, 2010
Calcification of the Left Ventricle
Cardiac calcification usually occurs in the valves, the sinus and atrioventricular nodes, coronary arteries and most rarely in the ventricular myocardium as a consequence of a previous heart attack. These are associated with complications, among which are related to heart failure, stroke, and arrhythmias.
This is an exceptional case of serious myocardial calcification associated with heart failure resistant to medical treatment.
This a fifty-eight year old patient with a previous history of myocardial infarction that evolved to dilated necrotic cardiomyopathy (ejection fraction of 10% of the left ventricle) with multiple hospitalizations for heart failure. Admitted into our center for another symptom of total heart failure resistant to medical treatment. (Inotropic or BCIA). As well in anteroposterior chest x-rays, tomography of the chest and coronary angiography (see right oblique) signals calcification of ventricular wall thickness at the same and previous level and at the apex of the heart(arrows to continue),
The patient was taken to another medical center under evaluation for a heart transplant.