A Mitral Annular Calcification–Related Calcified Amorphous Tumor in End-Stage Renal Disease.
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ABSTRACT: Highlights•Mitral annular calcifications (MACs) are chronic degenerative changes that occur mostly along the posterior mitral annulus.•Calcified amorphous tumors (CATs) constitute rare, non-neoplastic masses of the heart that histologically comprise calcium deposits, inflammatory cells, and fibrin elements.•Subgroups of cardiac CATs are echogenic spindle-shaped masses that arise from the mitral valve and are frequently related to bulky MACs in patients with end-stage renal disease; they are termed “MAC-related CATs.”•CATs have a wide variation of presenting symptoms, ranging from no symptoms to shortness of breath, obstruction, and systemic embolization, on the basis of the size and location of the CAT.•Awareness of MAC-related CATs is important, as they may lead to undesirable extra diagnostic and therapeutic management.
SUBMITTER: Sadeghpour A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6058222 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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