Cardiac Calcified Amorphous Tumor as a Rare Cause of Ischemic Stroke: Clinical Case

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 Jan;13(1):e009623. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.119.009623. Epub 2020 Jan 7.

Authors

Benedetta Formelli^{1

2}, Antonio Farina¹, Francesca Pescini, Vanessa Palumbo², Maria Grazia D'Alfonso³, Andrea Oddo³, Fabio Mori³, Anna Poggesi^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ NEUROFARBA Department, Neuroscience Section, University of Florence, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy (B.F., A.F., A.P.).
² Stroke Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy (F.P., V.P., A.P.).
³ Cardiovascular Diagnostic Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy (M.G.D., A.O., F.M.).

PMID: 31906700
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.119.009623

No abstract available

Keywords: diabetes mellitus; heart neoplasm, blood viscosity; hematocrit; hypertension; stroke; thrombosis.

Publication types

Case Reports
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

Aged
Anticoagulants / therapeutic use
Brain Ischemia / drug therapy
Brain Ischemia / etiology*
Calcinosis / complications*
Calcinosis / diagnostic imaging*
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Heart Neoplasms / complications*
Heart Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Stroke / drug therapy
Stroke / etiology*

Substances

Anticoagulants