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Generalized arterial calcification of infancy--Findings at post-mortem computed tomography and autopsy. 2015

Ferdia Bolster, and Zabiullah Ali, and Pamela Southall, and David Fowler

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of Maryland, 900 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21223, USA. Electronic address: ferdiabolster@hotmail.com.

Generalized arterial calcification in infancy is a rare genetic disorder characterized by abnormal calcification of large and medium sized arteries and marked myointimal proliferation resulting in arterial stenosis. The condition is often fatal secondary to complications of cardiac ischemia, hypertension and cardiac failure. In this report we describe the findings at post mortem computed tomography, histology and autopsy.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007231	Infant, Newborn	An infant during the first 28 days after birth.	Neonate,Newborns,Infants, Newborn,Neonates,Newborn,Newborn Infant,Newborn Infants
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D049429	Forensic Pathology	The application of pathology to questions of law.	Pathology, Forensic
D051598	Whole Body Imaging	The creation of a visual display of the inside of the entire body of a human or animal for the purposes of diagnostic evaluation. This is most commonly achieved by using MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; or POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY.	Whole Body Scanning,Whole Body Scan,Whole Body Screening,Imaging, Whole Body,Imagings, Whole Body,Scan, Whole Body,Scans, Whole Body,Screening, Whole Body,Screenings, Whole Body,Whole Body Imagings,Whole Body Screenings
D061205	Vascular Calcification	Deposition of calcium into the blood vessel structures. Excessive calcification of the vessels is associated with ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES formation particularly after MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (see MONCKEBERG MEDIAL CALCIFIC SCLEROSIS) and chronic kidney diseases which in turn increase VASCULAR STIFFNESS.	Vascular Calcinosis,Calcification, Vascular,Calcinosis, Vascular,Vascular Calcifications,Vascular Calcinoses
D061330	Multidetector Computed Tomography	Types of spiral computed tomography technology in which multiple slices of data are acquired simultaneously improving the resolution over single slice acquisition technology.	Multidetector-Row Computed Tomography,Multisection Computed Tomography,Multislice Computed Tomography,Computed Tomography, Multidetector,Computed Tomography, Multidetector-Row,Computed Tomography, Multisection,Computed Tomography, Multislice,Multidetector Row Computed Tomography,Tomography, Multidetector Computed,Tomography, Multidetector-Row Computed,Tomography, Multisection Computed,Tomography, Multislice Computed