Idiopathic Arterial Calcification in a 5-Year-Old Child: A Case Report

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Idiopathic arterial calcification has been described previously in 48 infants who ranged in age from newborn to 16 months. An autopsy of a 5-year-old child, who died of cardiac arrest after open cardiotomy for repair of an interventricular septal defect revealed arterial lesions similar to those of the above cases. The disseminated distribution of characteristic arterial lesions, in the absence of renal disease evidence of hypervitaminosis or a parathyroid adenoma, places this case under the heading of idiopathic arterial calcification. The relation of this disease to other disorders of elastic tissue, including osteogenesis imperfecta, pseudoxanthoma elasticum, and pulmonary fibrosis and giant cell reaction with altered elastic tissue, was dis-cussed, but no definite relation could be found other than the fact that all represent various disorders of elastic tissue.

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