Population
14 patients with calcified myocardial infarcts and 63 patients with old myocardial infarcts without…
Design
Case-control
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Recognition of this rare entity may aid differentiation from pericarditis; Level 4 data leaves open prospective validation of prognostic value.
Calcified myocardial infarcts, though uncommon, have a characteristic clinical and radiological picture that is important for prognosis and avoiding misdiagnosis as calcific pericarditis.
Brean et al. (1950) studied this question.
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