Cardiac calcified amorphous tumour: an unusual aetiology for recurrent cardioembolic strokes

Rishi Sharma; Saketh Annam; Mehmet Guler; Bilal Ali; Haitham Hussein

doi:10.1136/bcr-2023-257226

Cardiac calcified amorphous tumour: an unusual aetiology for recurrent cardioembolic strokes

BMJ Case Rep. 2024 Jan 25;17(1):e257226. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2023-257226.

Authors

Rishi Sharma¹, Saketh Annam², Mehmet Guler³, Bilal Ali⁴, Haitham Hussein²

Affiliations

¹ Neurology, University of Minnesota Medical School Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA sharm415@umn.edu.
² Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
³ Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

PMID: 38272522
PMCID: PMC10826496 (available on 2026-01-25)
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2023-257226

Abstract

We report an elderly woman with vascular risk factors and recurrent cardioembolic strokes in whom the stroke aetiology was finally ascertained to be a calcified amorphous tumour of the heart after repeated negative investigations for embolic aetiology over 2 years. This report discusses the clinical and imaging characteristics of calcified amorphous tumours of the heart with emphasis of recent advances in cardiac imaging.

Keywords: Pathology; Radiology; Stroke.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Embolic Stroke*
Embolism* / complications
Embolism* / etiology
Female
Heart Neoplasms* / complications
Heart Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Risk Factors
Stroke* / etiology
Stroke* / pathology