Calcification of the Congenitally Stenotic Pulmonary Valve

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Abstract
ALTHOUGH the discovery at autopsy of focal calcification in pulmonary valves of patients with congenital pulmonary stenosis is not rare1 demonstration of such calcification on roentgenograms of the chest has previously been reported in only 2 cases.2 , 3 Five patients with previously untreated congenital pulmonary-valve stenosis, each with roentgenographically visible pulmonary-valve calcification, have been seen at the Massachusetts General Hospital since January 1, 1957 (Table 1). In each case the diagnosis was subsequently confirmed at surgery or autopsy. Four of the patients had cardiac anomalies in addition to pulmonic stenosis.DiscussionThe youngest patient in our series was thirty-three years old; . . .

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