Journal article
Multidetector computed tomographic imaging of Erdheim-Chester disease
Texas Heart Institute journal, Vol.41(3), pp.338-340
06/01/2014
DOI: 10.14503/THIJ-13-3350
PMCID: PMC4060329
PMID: 24955059
Abstract
Erdheim-Chester disease is a rarely reported disease that can affect nearly every organ and chiefly infiltrates the connective, perivascular, and adipose tissue. The disease is a form of non-Langerhans-cell histiocytosis characterized by the proliferation of foamy histiocytes; its cardiovascular complications carry a severe prognosis. We present the case of a 29-year-old woman who was admitted for analysis of her angina. Our evaluation with use of cardiac multidetector computed tomographic angiography revealed large mediastinal soft tissue that compressed the patient's left anterior descending coronary artery. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the use of low-dose, dual-source, 256-slice multidetector computed tomography to characterize Erdheim-Chester disease that exclusively caused angina and stenosis of a coronary artery in a young adult.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Multidetector computed tomographic imaging of Erdheim-Chester disease
- Creators
- Zeyneb Yuceler - Atatürk UniversityMecit KantarciNevzat Karabulut - Istanbul UniversityHayri Ogul - Atatürk UniversityUmmugulsum BayraktutanCanan Akman - Atatürk University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Texas Heart Institute journal, Vol.41(3), pp.338-340
- DOI
- 10.14503/THIJ-13-3350
- PMID
- 24955059
- PMCID
- PMC4060329
- ISSN
- 0730-2347
- eISSN
- 1526-6702
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984697637702771
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