Hernández-Ávila J, Castillo-Castellón F, Kimura-Hayama ET, Criales-Vera SA, Beltrán-Pérez J

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ABSTRACT

Cardiac calcifications are a common finding in multidetector tomographies, usually secondary to a disease or degenerative process. Recognizing the different types of calcification and their location and characteristics offers relevant information to establish suitable medical or surgical treatment.
Objective: Review the different types of cardiac calcification and describe their pathogenesis and clinical implications. Characterize their different types by means of multidetector tomography, and establish the differences between their pathological or no-pathological origin.
Material and method: The most representative cases of patients who presented cardiac calcifications (in multidetector tomography studies) at Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez were chosen.
Discussion: The use of multidetector tomography has increased over time, including its use as a screening method, and therefore detection of cardiac calcifications is a common incidental finding in our field.
Conclusion: Identify the different causes and forms of presentation of the different types of cardiac calcification can help to establish prognosis and treatment of symptoms.

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