Beth Israel Medical Center, New York
Calcifications of the heart can be a result of aging or a pathologic condition
Published in Healthcare Mergers, Acquisitions and Ventures Week, August 28th, 2004
"Cardiac calcification usually represents the result of a pathologic process. Some forms of calcification represent chronic change in an ageing population, and must be differentiated from pathologic calcification," scientists in the United States report.
"Still other forms of calcification are associated with ageing and chronic degeneration, but also reflect ongoing pathologic processes. Recognition of cardiac calcification may be an early sign or only sign of a pathologic process," wrote R.M. Gowda and colleagues, Beth Israel Medical Center, Department of...
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