Pericardial Calcification Associated with Histoplasmosis

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Abstract
HISTOPLASMOSIS is known to involve many tissues, but pericardial involvement has rarely been reported. Since histoplasmosis is a generalized infection of the reticuloendothelial system, with proliferation of the parasitic form of the fungus within the cells,1 it seems unlikely that it would spare the pericardium. We have recently seen a patient with a calcified pericardium that we believe to be due to histoplasmosis.Case ReportA 50-year-old man was admitted to the Ophthalmology Ward of the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital on April 2, 1958, because of blurring of vision in the left eye. He had noted decreased vision intermittently since . . .