Left Atrial Calcifications: Computed Tomographic Imaging Findings of an Unusual Sign of Rheumatic Heart Disease

J Comput Assist Tomogr , Volume 32, Number 5, September/October 2008

Rodrigo A. Salgado, MD, Bharati Shivalkar, MD, PhD, Paul M. Parizel, MD, PhD, and Christiaan Vrints, MD, PhD

Abstract: Left atrial wall calcifications are an extremely rare finding of unknown cause usually associated with rheumatic disease. Only a few case reports of this entity are found in the literature, mostly describing the findings on conventional chest radiography, echocar¬diography, and angiography. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case documented with multislice computed tomography.