Left ventricular calcification following resuscitation

In this paper we report a case of 34-year-old man with a severe septic shoc k. Because of profound hypotension he was given massive amounts of catechol amines for 10 days. After a short recovery the function of his heart starte d to deteriorate again and clear calcification around the left ventricle wa s disclosed by computer tomography. Catecholamines are known to induce myoc ardial injury resulting in a special form of cardiomyopathy with eventual c alcification, but there are no previous reports of myocardial calcification to this extent.