Chinese dragon sign: splenic artery calcification

Splenic calcification in systemic lupus erythematosus.

Elzein FE, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-222206 Description A 39-year-old woman with known systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) nephropathy, antiphospholipid syndrome and chronic renal failure was evaluated for renal transplant. She was asymptomatic; nevertheless, the abdominal ultrasonogram showed splenic calcification (figure 1). The chest radiograph showed faint lesions sugges...

Splenic Artery Aneurysms

Giant coronary artery calcification.

An 11-year-old boy presented with giant calcifications on the chest radiograph, detected during screening for heart disease (Figure). He had been diagnosed with measles twice, at 1 and 2 years of age. Before this screening, he had been asymptomatic. An ECG revealed sinus rhythm and no specific ST-T–wave changes. The CT scan showed 2 giant circular masses at the atrioventricular sulcus of the ri...

Coronary Artery Calcification.

Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is an established marker of subclinical atherosclerosis and an independent predictor of future coronary heart disease in the asymptomatic primary prevention population, particularly in the intermediate risk cohort. CAC also helps in reclassifying those patients and their risk of cardiovascular events into higher or lower risk categories. MESA (Multi-Ethnic St...

Splenic Artery Aneurysms and Hepatic Artery Dissection

Abdominal aorta aneurysms (AAAs) are common in the vascular fi eld. Testing for this phenomenon is rather easy; simply order an AAA screening via ultrasound. What is not common, however, is fi nding an aneurysm of the much smaller branches of the splanchnic arteries. These arteries consist of the celiac artery (CA), common hepatic artery (CHA), splenic artery (SA), gastric artery, and superior ...