Infective Rupture of Caseous Calcification of the Mitral Annulus Resulting in Fatal Systemic Embolism

Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2025 Jan 2:jeae336. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jeae336. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Hiroyuki Mizuno^{1

2}, Kenji Harada¹, Kenta Fujimura¹, Kazuomi Kario¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Japan.
² Department of Medicine, Ibaraki Western Medical Center, Chikusei, Japan.

PMID: 39745819
DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jeae336

No abstract available

Keywords: caseous calcification of the mitral annulus; systemic embolism.