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Washington University Experience | BASIC PROCESSES | Mineralizations - Vessels & NOS | 10A0 Case 12 History
The decedent is a 70-year-old man with a history of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, requiring 5-vessel coronary artery bypass surgery and ICD implantation, chronic congestive heart failure, chronic atrial fibrillation, hypertensive cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia,
chronic kidney disease (with a baseline creatinine of 3.0), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, type II diabetes mellitus
(on Lantus and Levamir), chronic anemia requiring regular transfusions, chronic thrombocytopenia, history of MRSA
infection and sternal wound infection, lumbar spinal fusion, and prostate cancer treated with radiation. In a patient with a complex medical history, especially ones where calcium handling may be abnormal, it is difficult to confidently describe hippocampal mineralization as idiopathic. Nonetheless, patients without known calcium handling abnormality can develop such findings.
