PERICARDITIS CALCULOSA

27 January 1923

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 80 (4) , 236-240
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1923.02640310016005

Abstract

Rarely does the roentgen-ray examiner stumble onto anything more interesting and startling than the revelation of a calcareous deposit in the pericardium. This relatively rare deposit of lime salts, occurring in a regular or irregular manner on the surface of the heart, sometimes loosely spoken of as "ossification" and "bone" in the pericardium, is more properly designated as pericarditic calcification or pericarditis calculosa. The calcium deposit, composed of the phosphate combined with small amounts of the carbonate and a trace of sodium, usually is confined to the pericardium; but it may extend into the substance of the heart. There have been published several excellent summaries of our knowledge of the pathology and symptomatology of this rare condition, notably those by Diemer,¹Jones,²Mitchell,³Klason⁴and Mueller.⁵The total number of cases found reported in the literature prior to 1922 is ninety. To these I have

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THE CALCIUM CONTENT OF THE BLOOD SERUM IN CERTAIN PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
Published by Elsevier ,1917